From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 306 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at befuddled; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:21:26 EDT Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736E31EF08B for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:21:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.30]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Me67s-1UrhHV1fW2-00PrWZ for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 03:16:15 +0200 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 May 2013 01:16:15 -0000 Received: from c-24-218-86-141.hsd1.ct.comcast.net (EHLO [10.1.10.79]) [24.218.86.141] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 16 May 2013 03:16:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #12989700 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/pq7JjCj7pv5fzNe937Rd36nGXjQGqtYsppLcaX2 5NjRDPPpruEeyt Message-ID: <51943364.8060800@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 21:16:20 -0400 From: Alex Snow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Slack 13.37 and 14.0 References: <8F6D9D72964E4D2E90262B7DB242EE9D@mdlynn> <5191FF80.1030802@baechler.net> In-Reply-To: <5191FF80.1030802@baechler.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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: Thu, 16 May 2013 01:21:27 -0000 You could also install slackware using a serial console and then drop in whatever kernel you want to get hardware speach from Speakup...Slackware uses basicly a stock kernel.org kernel, so this isn't all that difficult. On 5/14/2013 5:10 AM, Tony Baechler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Since no one answered, I'll try my luck. I don't use Slackware and > haven't in a very long time. If you're using hardware speech, Slack > probably ships a newer kernel after 2.6.37 with broken serial support. > The only two options are to use an older kernel or software speech. I > don't think Slackware supports software speech, but Debian does. If > you're running 32-bit, you might run into problems with big drives > regardless of the kernel. I would recommend installing 64-bit Debian > Squeeze if your system can run 64-bit and upgrade to Wheezy from there. > That still lets you use the older kernel with hardware speech while giving > you the newer packages. If you can use software speech, of course just > installing Debian Wheezy directly is the better option. I've ran both > Debian Squeeze with the 2.6.32 kernel and Wheezy with the 3.2 kernel and > several 3 TB drives in a RAID array with no problems. As I'm sure you > know, you probably don't want to use a 3 TB drive for boot. I have a > separate 1 TB RAID array for my boot drive and I've had no problems. > > In reading your message again, I have a question. What happens with > Debian if you use the standard Speakup keys to change your rate and pitch? > I use a DECtalk Express here and I've never had that problem. In fact, I > worked on fixing the driver and William incorporated my fixes with his own > into the official Speakup module, so you should have a very good > experience. Someone else has reported random rate and pitch drops, but > he's using a DECtalk USB. I'm assuming you tried either the speakupconf > script in the speakup-tools package or added lines to /etc/rc.local to set > your rate and pitch, right? If the standard Speakup keys aren't working, > you might have a keyboard issue or there might be a bug in D-I. Did you > actually get Debian installed or is the problem you're having with the > install CD? > > On 5/13/2013 10:06 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote: >> New to this list and hoping you all can help with this problem. I am >> having issues with the last two versions of Slackware and getting >> Speakup at install time. I have used Slackware back to version 7.0 with >> no issues. >> >> For some reason, I can't get Speakup to load on either of these >> releases. Using DEC Talk Express. Tried speakup.s, huge.s and hugesmp.s >> since the latter two appear to have Speakup as well. >> >> I desperately need to get to a version that supports 3TB hard drives. >> Considered switching to Debian, but ran into a Speakup issue there >> too. Seems to be stuck at a default rate, and it won't let me change it >> for session or otherwise. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRkf+AAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0y3mkP/jOlQMS8S1fYURTGZEaNDeqr > 1F81Q8rC3f5lNHNItK10z4ix4PpQvQmVnZKmi6LjoV7GScYPzF3cqyHGbSmXHE3p > 4igWGCTfWNUTqe4Ucfpc1WX+xz2PY+9o6lWtDh3u9HlyrfHzwJva2KJZVk4HxXzJ > dPXpTOIbBBS23XtpmocArPeIiT3Is6KVs5YUeKXkfs1c5Hqe0vg35X7kFuDxOX0U > 1J3tqInPJsd/AK6Q7b8ergji2bGYon7fPRQQGh2u4Ozwq74M1Eo8Y/56sWk/DbHG > l1u20E1anQp/ZgXJgc6PCjhLvevfA1UjOrrsW+VJbU6Op2xdQdA93RgBKOMMJyCk > 5eBjZYcnZJN2YdH9KfUDY5kFClZ+fdw24IudkLSbqPz5S9oAc6c3yLNc2+ibYrPr > it7CQ4DN1a2dqbWnummi84FTfuJ49cD3hvj2if0CnVKmwOLaE1d6xBsgGqRH0Wyf > sr8wCjomE7oarZr3IvIWlx8AAlT/HDgISBUZYcH2NTJWSv0YlSZ1LS1alLBbLyIk > 5568ZwxAue0BV4L6w3nAdlE6a8y1iHLTGQ0Y+NdnSVhiCVTT5PHYpNSkjgvXKkts > PDZQEH/cFiTFW5WZql9GGqnKD1QgiIMutG3BlcjGXraqVDo129lX8+xrqH0DuQMI > A6yc1+5LqKWOYYaYjC1o > =T8TQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup