From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com (aserp1040.oracle.com [141.146.126.69]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99DFA1EF08B for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 04:29:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r169TUOf009478 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:29:32 GMT Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r169TUNb012175 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:29:30 GMT Received: from abhmt116.oracle.com (abhmt116.oracle.com [141.146.116.68]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r169TTig005540 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 03:29:29 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <44cbfa59-0baa-447d-98f7-93f48d61c114@default> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 01:29:28 -0800 (PST) From: Don Raikes Sender: Don Raikes To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: RE: creating a speakup cli cd References: <51120D7F.3080207@baechler.net> In-Reply-To: <51120D7F.3080207@baechler.net> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6665.5003 (x86)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 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: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:29:39 -0000 I am certainly open to looking at both ubuntu and debian as the base system= s. The problem with ubuntu and vinux is that the latest versions of ubuntu sta= rting with precise utilize the unity desktop and that is a real accessibili= ty nightmare. I know there is a way to use the gnome-classic desktop but t= hat seems a bit flaky to me. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Baechler [mailto:tony@baechler.net]=20 Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:00 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: creating a speakup cli cd Before you do that, look at Vinux. It's already based on Ubuntu and includ= es Speakup, but it isn't specifically command line. It also includes Gnome= and Orca. I didn't recommend it to you previously because it seemed to cr= ash a lot in my tests, but that was quite a while ago. Even if you go ahea= d and build your own CD from scratch, Vinux has done a lot of the basic ste= ps for you. To me, it doesn't make much sense to reinvent the wheel. I pe= rsonally would rather see efforts focused on the Debian live CD since the k= ernel already has Speakup included and it's just a matter of starting softw= are speech at boot. I did some initial experiments in this regard and it l= ooked like it wouldn't take more than a few hours, but I admit that I don't= know anything about how the boot loader works. There are already packages= to create a plain vanilla Debian live CD on your own system, so it should = just be a matter of adding the espeakup, espeak and speakup-tools packages = and making sure the startup scripts work. I might give this another go in = a couple of weeks if no one beats me to it. On 2/5/2013 10:55 AM, Don Raikes wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am starting work on a project to make a Speakup-enabled livecd that wil= l boot to the console. > > > > The cd will be based on ubuntu precise and will include Speakup, espeakup= and brltty for accessibility. > > Are there special parameters I need to pass to the kernel at boot to acti= vate Speakup at start? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Have a good day, Tony Baechler tony@baechler.net _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup