Re: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2!

["Arthur Pirika" <arfy@andrelouis.com>]

Hi, while the cd works perfectly, the repository you gave for packages for 
espeakup and speakup doesn't work, from the web browser or the arch system. 
The web browser gives a server not found message, and the package system 
appeared to hang when I issued pacman -Sy with the blind repo active. Also, 
did you intend for there to be curly brackets around the http link for the 
repo?

thanks,
Arthur.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon@cox.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:57 PM
Subject: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2!


>I am proud to announce the second release of a modified ArchLinux install 
>CD
> that includes Speakup.
> It is mostly equivalent to the official "ftp CD", but
> the system should start speaking as soon as you boot with it.
> Speech is provided via the sound card, using the eSpeak software 
> synthesizer.
> This CD is only available for the i686 platform; x86-64 is not supported.
> There are two versions: an Isolinux version and a Grub version.
> One may obtain ".iso" images via HTTP.
>
> Grub:
> Download URL: http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso
> MD5 sum: 932d49d5093e50d8c5fb14527afd17fa
>
> Isolinux:
> Download URL:
> http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686-isolinux.iso.1
> MD5 sum: 28fa806a745e26424596259a71fc9d64
>
> Thanks to Tyler Littlefield for hosting these files.
>
> The following list of steps is a brief guide to installing ArchLinux
> using this CD.
> If anyone has trouble with it, send me a private email.
> The instructions assume that your root partition will be mounted on /mnt.
>
> 0. When booting, Grub provides a very long timeout.  Press enter once the
> drive stops spinning.
>
> 1. Use the installer on the CD, as per the beginner's guide.
> 2. Install the alsa-utils and espeak packages:
> pacman --root=/mnt -S alsa-utils espeak
> 3. Install the speakup and espeakup packages.
> These are not yet available in the community repository.
> There are two ways to install them, depending on how much you trust me.
>
> Alternative 1: Use the binary packages from my website.  I promise that
> the speakup package will always match the kernel version available from
> the official ArchLinux repositories.
> Append the following two lines to /etc/pacman.conf and 
> /mnt/etc/pacman.conf:
> [blind]
> Server = {http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/blind/i686}
> Install the packages from my custom repository:
> pacman --root=/mnt -Sy speakup espeakup
>
> Alternative 2: Build the packages from source, using the PKGBUILDs 
> available
> from the Arch User Repository.  For convenience, the URLs are:
> {http://aur.archlinux.org/download/speakup/speakup.tar.gz}
> {http://aur.archlinux.org/download/espeakup/espeakup.tar.gz}
> If I were going to choose this option, I would probably chroot into the
> newly installed ArchLinux system in order to build the packages.
>
> 4. Customize /mnt/etc/rc.conf:
> Add speakup and speakup_soft to the MODULES array.  Add alsa and espeakup 
> to
> the DAEMONS array.
>
> 5. You also need to save the state of the sound card, so that it will be
> retrieved on reboot.
> Execute the command "alsactl store" and copy the file /etc/asound.state to
> /mnt/etc/asound.state.
> Alternatively, alsactl -f /mnt/etc/asound.state store
>
> 6. When you boot the system from the hard disk, it should start speaking.
>
> The ArchLinux developers build their CD images using a set of shell 
> scripts
> and configuration files named archiso.  I added a configuration to archiso
> that allows me to build accessible CDs.
> If someone wants to master customized images containing Speakup, he should
> do the following.
>
> Grab sources using git:
> git clone http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/archiso.git
> git checkout --track -b talkinginst origin/talkinginst
> All of my work is done on the "talkinginst" branch.  The master branch
> mirrors the master branch from git://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git
> Now you have a copy in archiso/.  Install the scripts contained in
> archiso/archiso.
>
> In order to create the image, pacman needs to be able to find the speakup
> and espeakup packages.
> Add my custom [blind] package repository to /etc/pacman.conf on the host
> system, as described in the instructions for installing from CD.
> Change to the archiso/configs/talkinginst directory, and type "make 
> ftp-iso".
> Alternatively, "make BOOTLOADER=syslinux ftp-iso"" yields an image having
> Isolinux as its bootloader.
> There are several more targets for "make".  For instance, ftp-usb produces
> an image suitable for a flash drive.
>
> Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with ArchLinux.
> I don't even have Trusted User status in the community.
> This CD image is not an official release.  It is not endorsed by anyone 
> other
> than myself.  It is provided solely for the convenience of its creator
> and other blind users.      It comes with absolutely no warranty.
>
> With kind regards,
> -- Chris
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