From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from opera.rednote.net (opera.rednote.net [75.125.70.226]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFB410A3F for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:21:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sonata.rednote.net (sonata.rednote.net [IPv6:2001:470:b804:1:216:d3ff:fecc:ec01]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6SNKuqG030918 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:21:07 GMT Received: from sonata.rednote.net (localhost [IPv6:::1] (may be forged)) by sonata.rednote.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6SNKuDd026498 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:20:56 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by sonata.rednote.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m6SNKuQL026496 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:20:56 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: sonata.rednote.net: janina set sender to janina@rednote.net using -f Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:20:56 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: intro and questions Message-ID: <20080728232056.GB32115@sonata.rednote.net> References: <1217182416.13999.20.camel@lina-desktop> <1217284763.4817.14.camel@violet.perfumed-garden.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1217284763.4817.14.camel@violet.perfumed-garden.local> X-Operating-System: Linux sonata.rednote.net 2.6.25.11-97.spk.fc9.x86_64 Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7870/Mon Jul 28 20:26:35 2008 on opera.rednote.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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 23:21:13 -0000 Georgina Joyce writes: > > 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. No, no. a. Take the .gz file you downloaded and uncompress it. This will create a directory. b. cd to that directory and type 'make' and press enter. c. If all goes well, this creates a binary called spk-connect-ttsynth. Copy or mv that file to /usr/local/bin. This is what you type to start the connector talking. d. But that's probably more than you want to type every time you start speech. That's the reason to create a symbolic link to this file. So that you can have something short to type to start speech. Note that the connector can only be built on a 32-bit system at this time. > > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf It's /boot/grub/grub.conf > No, in an editor you open /boot/grub/menu.lst with root privillages. Well, Fedora provides menu.lst as a symbolic link to grub.conf. So, consider this an example of the symbolic link in 1d above. > You'll see a line that starts title, then possibly root then one > starting with kernel. Something like this: > Here's an actual Fedora kernel statement. Note there's a horribly long UID designator for the root argument. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.11-97.spk.fc9.x86_64 ro root=UUID=800328ee-c064-4bfb-ad96-d4086c8cc44e vga=0xF07 speakup.synth=soft speakup.quiet=1 > I know that there's been some changes but I thought that the software > synth was: > > speakup.synth=sftsyn Not any longer. It's now called 'soft' . See the above kernel statement from grub.conf. Janina