From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 38C721EFF1A; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C75E1EFF0E for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:15:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5289F17FF2; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:15:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 1B74414B9A; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:15:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180E214B98; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:15:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:15:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." cc: katolaz@freaknet.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan Minimal Live Images -- new version In-Reply-To: <20160527020027.GA5518@gregn.net> Message-ID: References: <20160517172409.GN32487@katolaz.homeunix.net> <20160520202337.GA19066@gregn.net> <20160523134308.GG32487@katolaz.homeunix.net> <20160523223305.GB20081@gregn.net> <20160526055409.GS32487@katolaz.homeunix.net> <20160526232351.GB8518@gregn.net> <20160527010354.GA32235@gregn.net> <20160527020027.GA5518@gregn.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 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: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:15:51 -0000 That's right, and you can even have talkingarch play over usb speakers. On Thu, 26 May 2016, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 22:00:27 > From: Gregory Nowak > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > To: speakup@linux-speakup.org > Cc: katolaz@freaknet.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan Minimal Live Images -- new version > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 06:07:56PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: >> One thing which should be addressed is multiple sound cards. My current HP laptop has (what also thinks of), as two, since there?s a digital HDMI port. Often, I?d boot a bistro only to find no sound because the HDMI grabbed card0. >> >> Talking ArchLinux has a decent solution to this, but I?ve never seen anything like it employed for other distros. > > Good point which I haven't thought of. I haven't used talking > arch. From what I understand though, it plays a file on all detected > sound cards one by one asking the user to press enter to activate that > particular sound card. Is that about right? Such a file could easily > be generated with espeak, or even espeak itself could be used directly > to keep the squashfs size to a minimum. > > We also need to keep in mind that these are images meant for everyone, > including sighted users. I imagine they being the majority would find > it annoying every time they were asked to press enter to activate a > sound card, especially if they didn't understand the point. It would > probably be much like the boot process stopping every time asking > sighted users to select which video output they wanted to use. They > would probably appreciate it, but the majority of us would probably > find that annoying. KatolaZ has already made the first boot option > with no framebuffer as the "accessible" option. Perhaps this sound > card detection could run only if the system is booted using that > particular choice, but not on any of the other choices? Maybe someone > has an even better idea? > > Greg > > >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup --