Speakup added to another distro

Speakup added to another distro

[Tommy Moore]

Hi guys. Have been working with the head developer for a linux 
distribution called Sorcerer Linux.
Kyle's added speakup in to the installation kernel for the system and 
included it on the iso image that's used to install the system.
I'd test it out but I won't have a cd burner til tomorrow and am wondering 
if there's anyone willing to burn the cd and let me know if you can get it 
to speak.

http://sorcerer.wox.org/download is the place to get the image.
The iso is distributed as a bz2 file so you'll need to run it through 
bunzip2 before burning to cd.
You should be able to pass the speakup_synth option to the kernel.
linux speakup_synth=synth_name should work.

Tommy

Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I would be willing to try it out but I don't have a pc atm that can boot
a cd.  Are there installation floppy images made for this distro?
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Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Tommy Moore]

Yes, they do have a boot disk there which is also a bz2 file but I think 
it requires a burned copy of the cd to be in the drive.

Tommy


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> I would be willing to try it out but I don't have a pc atm that can boot
> a cd.  Are there installation floppy images made for this distro?
> 

Re: Speakup added to another distro

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Cool, dude!  Two down, and at least two more to go.


          73.
          Bill

Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Tommy Moore]

Heh yeah, adding speakup to more distros is a good thing. The bad part 
about this one though is to install you must burn on to cd can't really 
modify a floppy or anything like that to get it going.

Tommy

Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Kirk Wood]

> Heh yeah, adding speakup to more distros is a good thing. The bad part 
> about this one though is to install you must burn on to cd can't really 
> modify a floppy or anything like that to get it going.

Actually, you should be able to copy the boot file to a floppy. The method
a CD uses to boot is there must be an image file of a floppy disk. This is
what is actually booted from. Copy the image to a floppy and you can boot
from floppy (though you probably still need the CD available).

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Nowlan's Theory:
        He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
        the next freeway exit.

Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Brian Moore]

HI.  tried this one and the default installation kernel wouldn't talk for
me.  perhaps the cd I made was broken but don't think so.  I think there
might be a screen before the boot prompt though which I wouldn't know about.
will play a little more on the week end and see if I can get it working.

Brian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@1tree.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup added to another distro


> > Heh yeah, adding speakup to more distros is a good thing. The bad part
> > about this one though is to install you must burn on to cd can't really
> > modify a floppy or anything like that to get it going.
>
> Actually, you should be able to copy the boot file to a floppy. The method
> a CD uses to boot is there must be an image file of a floppy disk. This is
> what is actually booted from. Copy the image to a floppy and you can boot
> from floppy (though you probably still need the CD available).
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
>
> Nowlan's Theory:
>         He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
>         the next freeway exit.
>
>
>
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Tommy Moore]

One thing I thought of a little while ago. Does speakup 1.00 work with 
devfs because that's what this distro uses.

Tommy

Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Geoff Shang]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Tommy Moore wrote:

> One thing I thought of a little while ago. Does speakup 1.00 work with
> devfs because that's what this distro uses.

Kirk says it should, yes.

Geoff.

Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Gregory Nowak]

Can someone please repost the URL for downloading the iso image of this newly speakup enabled distro? I seem to have lost it, and I want to check it out. Thanks.
Greg


On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:40:49AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Tommy Moore wrote:
> 
> > One thing I thought of a little while ago. Does speakup 1.00 work with
> > devfs because that's what this distro uses.
> 
> Kirk says it should, yes.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Tommy Moore]

http://sorcerer.wox.org/download
Haven't actually got it to install yet and am not sure why the kernel 
won't talk.
though.
Does loadlin have a problem booting kernels that are larger than 1024 k?

Tommy

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Can someone please repost the URL for downloading the iso image of this newly speakup enabled distro? I seem to have lost it, and I want to check it out. Thanks.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:40:49AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Tommy Moore wrote:
> > 
> > > One thing I thought of a little while ago. Does speakup 1.00 work with
> > > devfs because that's what this distro uses.
> > 
> > Kirk says it should, yes.
> > 
> > Geoff.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
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> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: Speakup added to another distro

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks for the URL. Yes, loadlin has a problem booting kernels of 1024 kb. I have a 900k kernel here, which loadlin just refuses to boot, it just locks up.
Greg


On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:35:12AM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote:
> http://sorcerer.wox.org/download
> Haven't actually got it to install yet and am not sure why the kernel 
> won't talk.
> though.
> Does loadlin have a problem booting kernels that are larger than 1024 k?
> 
> Tommy
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > Can someone please repost the URL for downloading the iso image of this newly speakup enabled distro? I seem to have lost it, and I want to check it out. Thanks.
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:40:49AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Tommy Moore wrote:
> > > 
> > > > One thing I thought of a little while ago. Does speakup 1.00 work with
> > > > devfs because that's what this distro uses.
> > > 
> > > Kirk says it should, yes.
> > > 
> > > Geoff.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
> 
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