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[179.199.99.101]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j17sm12002138qae.10.2014.11.01.06.25.45 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 01 Nov 2014 06:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5454DF64.5070603@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:25:56 -0200 From: Cleverson Casarin Uliana User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; pt-BR; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: finished with slackware References: In-Reply-To: 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: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:25:49 -0000 Dear Jude, I am considering the Crux distribution, whose phylosophy is quite close to Slackware. Its CD image is inaccessible as well, but it is probably possible to install it from within another distro. See the following thread I started on their mailing list, I have not yet tried the described process but it theoretically should work... http://lists.crux.nu/pipermail/crux/2014-October/004021.html Greetings, Cleverson Em 01/11/2014 07:27, Jude DaShiell escreveu: > 14.1 was the killer. Nothing I did documented or otherwise got any speech > out of that version of slackware so the disks have been trashed. I'll not > buy any future version of the distribution either since by the time the > disks arrive invariably one or more of them get broken by the shipping > process. Slackware is too thrifty to have bubble wrap insulating their > jewel cases in those cardboard boxes they use for shipping and I have > complained about this repeatedly to slackware too. So far as I'm > concerned, the distribution is inaccessible for installation or use. I > suspect further something happens in the boot process that makes litetalk > synthesizers unable to speak even when no attempt is made to access the > synthesizer on boot up. Because after doing a boot up by just hitting the > enter key a couple times echo statements directed to ttyS0 and ttyS1 > produced silence and the litetalk said it was ready before booting the > machine. Also in sighted boot up state, modprobe speakup-synth=ltlk and > modprobe speakup-synth=ltlk speakup-ser=0 and modprobe speakup-synth=ltlk > speakup-ser=1 statements all failed to contact the synthesizer as did > replacing the dash characters first with underscores and then replacing > the underscore characters by periods in those commands. > > What makes this worse is that earlier I offered to donate a doubletalk > litetalk synthesizer to slackware and pay for the shipping so slackware > could do some real accessibility testing with at least one synthesizer. I > did not mention what I paid for that synthesizer either. Slackware > aggressively refused my offer. How slackware does its accessibility > testing is that they put a monitor on a serial port that shows serial > traffic. Then they boot up using the booting parameters for speakup they > put in their documentation and watch to see if any traffic goes out that > serial port. If traffic goes out, their accessibility test has passed. > With the current situation, slackware is unable to prove signals adverse > to accessibility do not go out over the serial ports to synthesizers since > they have no synthesizer on which to actually hear what does or does not > happen and are not interested in correcting that deficiency. > > > > jude Twitter: @jdashiel > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup