From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 8CED61EF855; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 10:16:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57141EF850 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 10:16:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D9540DA1 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:16:27 -0600 (CST) 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 huB7FxqI-74X for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:16:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D29140D87 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:16:27 -0600 (CST) 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 ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:16:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.0.14] (ppp-69-218-136-97.dsl.mdsnwi.ameritech.net [69.218.136.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F0997493BE for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:16:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <54D62C4A.4090206@math.wisc.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:16:26 -0600 From: "John G. Heim" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 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, 07 Feb 2015 15:16:44 -0000 It doesn't matter what distro you use, it's in the linux kernel. You have to patch the kernel code to make speakup work with many hardware synths including the litetalk. I wrote instructions for building a patched debian kernel. I know these instructions don't directly apply to you but maybe you can use them to patch the code for your kernel. The key is to comment out one line in a source code module in the speakup code: http://www.iavit.org/~john/debian/build.html On 02/06/2015 07:37 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I was trying to install a current version of slackware using the litetalk > synthesizer earlier. Given slackware's installer kernel is broken, I got > some remote sighted assistance and was told wait 30 seconds then key in > boot parameters and that fails persistently insofaras getting speech up. > So apparently slackware and Fedora have something in common. In both > cases an installer interested in doing an accessible installation needs to > find and download an earlier version of the operating systems that did > install accessibly and use that version to install then upgrade through > the versions to get to current versions. Moonshine on Fedora worked on > intel machines in the past and if my memory is correct, maybe slackware > 11.2 ought to be able to get it done in this case. What I will do now is > take a stab at getting slackware 11.2 to speak and if that fails as time > and my download quotas permit will try other versions in the future. This > is now a low priority back burner project. I was surprised the > distribution got broken in this way. > > > > jude Twitter: @JudeDaShiell > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >