From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 22A851EF856; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 10:48:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602791EF853 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 10:48:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D97B40DBD for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:48:23 -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 RJHWWeUVHDYR for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:48:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F844093A for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:48:22 -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 09:48:22 -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 CCDCB7494CC for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:48:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <54D633C6.1070708@math.wisc.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:48:22 -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: <20150207085257.GG2032@linlap.wavecable.com> In-Reply-To: <20150207085257.GG2032@linlap.wavecable.com> 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 15:48:42 -0000 The trend has been to enable software speech in talking installers. I think it is going to be a long time before you will be able to do an install with a hardware synth in any distro. That may never work again. On 02/07/2015 02:52 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > I hate hearing stuff like this; we have made so much progress over the > years in making Linux accessible and then these things start coming > up. When you can't even boot a basic system with current versions of > installer and kernel, then there is something seriously wrong! > > I grew up on Slackware clear back in 1994 or so. I then had to login > from a different computer running a terminal emulator but that was a > start. > > As for me, I like Arch Linux and there is a current talking image > available. I thought Fedora was currently accessible; no? > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 08:37:32PM -0500, 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >