From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 0B3E91EF828; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:26:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612EF1EF7C6 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:26:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C17A49D032 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:26:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KRVjQ7vlz2-y for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF6149D031 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:26:30 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mta1.math.wisc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-101.0 required=6.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (erdos.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.25]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [144.92.166.19] (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA05342001B for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <5436FD86.1040409@math.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:26:30 -0500 From: "John G. Heim" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: the push to get rid of CONFIG_VT in the kernel and the future of Speakup References: <87zjd64c16.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> <543593E4.5040400@gmail.com> <54359B9E.10203@verizon.net> <5435AE9F.1090306@math.wisc.edu> <87oatm40zz.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> <20141009201702.GL1044@opera.rednote.net> <874mvd2cg8.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> In-Reply-To: <874mvd2cg8.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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, 09 Oct 2014 21:26:35 -0000 It was for stuff like this that we created the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists. The #1 problem we sought to address is that there's knowledge out there on how to do this kind of thing but it resides in the head of individuals scattered about cyberspace. Would you be willing to write a blog or a wiki entry about this for the IAVIT web site? Maybe we could put out a bootable image with most of the work already done. BTW, grml just released a new version for testing today. I've been planning on putting out a fork of grml that has a kernel patched for speakup and hardware synths and a few other niceties for the blind. But there are only so many hours in the day. On 10/09/14 15:52, Chris Brannon wrote: > Janina Sajka writes: > >> What about a full computer on a USB stick? Boot the stick then start the >> main machine drive as a vm. Am I crazy? I think not. > > Not at all. William Hubbs and I did this a couple of months ago, in > order to figure out why he couldn't boot from the Linux on his hard > drive. I'm not sure which one of us came up with the idea, but I talked him > through the process of booting his physical hard drive as a VM image > under qemu running in a live CD environment. The long and the short was > that he was able to read the boot messages, so the problem was diagnosed > and fixed in short order. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >