From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-iw0-f196.google.com (mail-iw0-f196.google.com [209.85.223.196]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3D210DEE for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:45:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by iwn34 with SMTP id 34so188587iwn.21 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:45:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.158.205 with SMTP id g13mr769431ibx.30.1259196330487; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:45:30 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [74.101.174.198] In-Reply-To: <1902ee8c0911251501o4f7dfa03uc040a1e35aafe62c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1902ee8c0911251501o4f7dfa03uc040a1e35aafe62c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:45:30 -0500 Message-ID: <863911580911251645l6560b409wbf6558ed7704029e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS From: Kelly Prescott To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:45:31 -0000 Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile a kernel to work. then I exclude kernel* from updates. I have also used gentoo and debian as well. debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing. still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5. Just my $0.02 =-- Kelly Prescott On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's > not hit my inbox or the archives. > > I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using > CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained > reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. > > In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment > die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among > other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some > rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which > will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. > Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of > the server variants out there. > > With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably > trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use > software speech -- and especially with my preference for some > commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up > working. > > This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have > any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the > dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it > looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. > Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear > of a time getting that to work. > > So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other > recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing > on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at > least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on > dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server > hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Garry > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >