From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.87]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FF710997 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:39:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mga.demon.co.uk ([80.177.13.92] helo=[192.168.2.16]) by anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) id 1KNbNT-0000tz-OO for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:39 +0000 Subject: Re: intro and questions From: Georgina Joyce To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <1217182416.13999.20.camel@lina-desktop> References: <1217182416.13999.20.camel@lina-desktop> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Ready2GoLinux Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:39:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1217284763.4817.14.camel@violet.perfumed-garden.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: gena@mga.demon.co.uk, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:40 -0000 > I Also have a laptop running ubuntu. So if it would be easier to convert > my laptop to Fedora, then I can do that as well. I just need input. > > > My questions are the following for fedora: > 1. When using the speakup connector, for ttsynth, I just coppy the make > file into /usr/local/bin/ > then creat an alias to start speak up. > I'm not a IBMtts user however, it doesn't make sense to put a make file into a directory. Do you mean the made binary file, after running make? > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf I beleive it's in /boot. To specify > the software speech at boot do I just scroll to the end of the file and > type speakup_synth=sftsynth then restart the computer and hope to have > speech at boot time? > No, in an editor you open /boot/grub/menu.lst with root privillages. You'll see a line that starts title, then possibly root then one starting with kernel. Something like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-fc9-i386-spk root=LABEL=/ Put a space after that line then add any kernel parameters such as speakup's. Check the documentation that you have the correct arguement. I know that there's been some changes but I thought that the software synth was: speakup.synth=sftsyn Gena