RE: Slack 13.37 and 14.0

["Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@kc.rr.com>]

Not difficult if you have a clue at all what to do <g>. That sounds like too
big a project for me. I want to get a media server going so I can do for
videos what Sonos does for my music. And I have reached the point where I am
seriously considering changing my machine (and my wife's who is also blind)
over to GUI Linux and ditching the Windows and the exorbitant screen
readers. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Alex
Snow
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:16 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Slack 13.37 and 14.0

You could also install slackware using a serial console and then drop in
whatever kernel you want to get hardware speach from Speakup...Slackware
uses basicly a stock kernel.org kernel, so this isn't all that difficult.

On 5/14/2013 5:10 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
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> Since no one answered, I'll try my luck.  I don't use Slackware and 
> haven't in a very long time.  If you're using hardware speech, Slack 
> probably ships a newer kernel after 2.6.37 with broken serial support.
> The only two options are to use an older kernel or software speech.  I 
> don't think Slackware supports software speech, but Debian does.  If 
> you're running 32-bit, you might run into problems with big drives 
> regardless of the kernel.  I would recommend installing 64-bit Debian 
> Squeeze if your system can run 64-bit and upgrade to Wheezy from there.
> That still lets you use the older kernel with hardware speech while 
> giving you the newer packages.  If you can use software speech, of 
> course just installing Debian Wheezy directly is the better option.  
> I've ran both Debian Squeeze with the 2.6.32 kernel and Wheezy with 
> the 3.2 kernel and several 3 TB drives in a RAID array with no 
> problems.  As I'm sure you know, you probably don't want to use a 3 TB 
> drive for boot.  I have a separate 1 TB RAID array for my boot drive and
I've had no problems.
>
> In reading your message again, I have a question.  What happens with 
> Debian if you use the standard Speakup keys to change your rate and pitch?
>   I use a DECtalk Express here and I've never had that problem.  In 
> fact, I worked on fixing the driver and William incorporated my fixes 
> with his own into the official Speakup module, so you should have a 
> very good experience.  Someone else has reported random rate and pitch 
> drops, but he's using a DECtalk USB.  I'm assuming you tried either 
> the speakupconf script in the speakup-tools package or added lines to 
> /etc/rc.local to set your rate and pitch, right?  If the standard 
> Speakup keys aren't working, you might have a keyboard issue or there 
> might be a bug in D-I.  Did you actually get Debian installed or is 
> the problem you're having with the install CD?
>
> On 5/13/2013 10:06 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote:
>> New to this list and hoping you all can help with this problem.  I am 
>> having issues with the last two versions of Slackware and getting 
>> Speakup at install time. I have used Slackware back to version 7.0 
>> with no issues.
>>
>> For some reason, I can't get Speakup to load on either of these 
>> releases. Using DEC Talk Express. Tried speakup.s, huge.s and 
>> hugesmp.s since the latter two appear to have Speakup as well.
>>
>> I desperately need to get to a version that supports 3TB hard drives.
>> Considered switching to Debian, but ran into a Speakup issue there 
>> too. Seems to be stuck at a default rate, and it won't let me change 
>> it for session or otherwise.
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