From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.123]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66E810991 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:59:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from paperweight ([76.181.172.184]) by hrndva-omta06.mail.rr.com with SMTP id <20090116055938.GEWG11982.hrndva-omta06.mail.rr.com@paperweight> for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:59:38 +0000 Message-ID: <2B1302BADE8243EF999ED915FA61E556@paperweight> From: "Bruce Noblick" To: "speakup info" Subject: another attempt to use speakup Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:59:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.11 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:59:39 -0000 Hello all, I have pulled much of what I have done here from threads on this list = but then I took a few leaps of faith on my own to get to a goal that has = only very recently come into focus. I will now explain. I started with Ubuntu 8.04 and just recently upgraded to 8.10. Then I opened a shell session with gnome-terminal. Then I tried a variant on Kerry's instructions to get speakup working. = I built speakup as suggested, successfully. Since I am using a DECTalk, = I skipped the espeakup and did the modprobe and specified speakup_dectlk = instead of speakup_soft. It told me that it worked. But then it was silent until I shut the computer down. Then it talked while the computer was going down. I had hoped that it would come up talking , even if only up to the login = prompt, But it didn't. Then I connected using ssh and had similar results when I did the = modprobe command. Then I saw the thread from just a few days ago about grml. I downloaded = and created the CD, found and read over the cheat sheet and attempted to = boot with it and specified grml speakup_synth=3Ddectlk. I couldn't get that to work. All I am trying to do now is get something to work with speakup. I like the idea of a live CD That would allow me to get the best of the = command line interface when I want it while allowing me to have the = gnome environment. I feel like I am close to it but I am apparently missing one or more = steps. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks! Bruce Noblick=20