From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 07FDE1EF86B; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:31:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from p3plsmtpa07-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa07-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.192.231]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C1A41EF868 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:31:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from village2 ([108.41.193.153]) by p3plsmtpa07-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id QDX21r0093K2U5001DX25n; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 06:31:03 -0700 From: Steve Matzura To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: GRML and Speakup Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:31:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20836.1443493221@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <20836.1443493221@ccs.covici.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:31:07 -0000 John: On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 22:20:21 -0400, you wrote: >The instructions you saw are out of date. What you do is at the tone >that you hear after booting from the cd, just hit enter and wait for >another beep. Now just hit return and you will be at a root prompt >with no speech. Now type modprobe speakup_soft and hit enter and then >type espeakup.=20 Some enterprising soul should come up with the mods which will do this automatically. Try as I might, I absolutely could not hear the internal speaker beep on either of the two systems I tried this on. Turns out, the speaker itself is buried deep, and I mean really deep, in the case, covered up by lots of other components. Therefore, having grml come up talking would be, to say the least, most efficacious.