From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ccs.covici.com ([67.62.15.196]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I03Ah-0005Hh-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:24:35 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5HMOV92008363 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:24:34 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.13.7/Submit) id l5HMOVmS008357; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:24:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18037.46239.61691.316877@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:24:31 -0400 From: John covici To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: gentoo dropping speakup support In-Reply-To: <20070617200022.GA16786@linux1> References: <20070617200022.GA16786@linux1> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.95.1 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com, "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: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:24:35 -0000 As you said in your comment this will be a great step backwards -- I was able to install gentoo on a laptop without assistance because of speakup being built in and now that ubuntu has dropped it, this would be no good. How about just saying its not selectable for spark and seeing if we can get it to work for 2.6.22 elsewhere which I am sure Kirk is working on? The user space idea may be something worth considering as we no longer get the boot messages we used to get, however this would be a much bigger change. Kirk is working on a git patch set which may help, but its broke right now. on Sunday 06/17/2007 William Hubbs(williamh@gentoo.org) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > because of this bug [1], gentoo linux will be dropping support for speakup in its official kernels starting at 2.6.22. > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177794 > > Is there any possibility at all that speakup could be moved into user space as the bug suggests? I feel that if we can go into user space this will b a better approach. > > Thanks, > > - -- > William Hubbs > gentoo accessibility team lead > williamh@gentoo.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGdZLWblQW9DDEZTgRAsCOAJoD/roDmHTKu7ji8qTXZ2eoX47T1ACeIivJ > j/qhb9Z6KNpfitEvr7Onrug= > =mpb2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com