From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from xen.quitelikely.com ([209.9.237.160] helo=quitelikely.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Jos9F-0007aw-00 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:29:25 -0400 Received: from carmickle.com (user-10bj5t2.cable.mindspring.com [64.185.151.162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quitelikely.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB92244002 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:29:17 -0400 From: Frank Carmickle To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: speakup on ppc? Message-ID: <20080424032917.GF17947@carmickle.com> References: <007701c8a5b8$4a2540a0$0401000a@openwindows> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007701c8a5b8$4a2540a0$0401000a@openwindows> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@carmickle.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: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:29:26 -0000 Hi Cheryl On Wed, Apr 23, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hi all. > > I posted to macvoiceover about my success in getting a dual boot with a ppc > mac mini with brltty, though with an unofficial cd since the necessary > changes in brltty haven't made it into the official testing images yet. I > got some inquiries back, some asking about speakup. I haven't tried using > speakup in ppc yet, though I did try using espeak, which installs but > doesn't speak and gives an error about bad data; I read that it could be > compiled to get rid of the error but then still didn't speak. There actually > is a version of espeak that works on the macosx end, though it isn't > incorporated to work with voiceover at this point. at any rate, can anybody > tell me whether speakup works on a ppc installation, specifically debian but > others also if applicable, and if there's any iso installation media at > present for ppc that has speakup? There is no installation support for sure. Long ago and far away, maybe during the 2.4 days, a few of us were playing with trying to get ppc to work. I don't even remember what we came up with. I haven't touched a ppc box in many years now. Well I should say there is one exception, my snom. And if we ever get custom firmware built for the snom we may need speakup. Now that you have a debian install on your ppc you should have a go at building a speakup kernel. That is if you aren't worried about getting your hands dirty. If you have any trouble along the way just speakup. --Frank