Using speakup and emacspeak together

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, has  anyone successfully tried Janina's suggestion with Grub?
For technical reasons my large hard drive needs Grub to boot properly, and
I've been trying to find a good way to multiboot kernels with it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Using speakup and emacspeak together


> You don't need to have two kernels to achieve this. Simply use an
> "append=speakup_synth=[your.synth.keyword]" to distinguish two entries
> pointing to the same kernel in your lilo.conf to accomplish the same
> result. Much more elegant and far easier to maintain.
>
> PS: I do this all the time. Here's an example from my lilo.conf:
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label=nospeech
> alias = n
> vga=0X317
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> append = "hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi"
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label=express
> alias = x
> vga=0X317
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> append = "speakup_synth=dectlk hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi"
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label=litetalk
> alias = l
> vga=0X317
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> append = "speakup_synth=ltlk hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi"
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label=bns
> alias = b
> vga=0X317
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> append = "speakup_synth=bns hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi"
>
>
> On Mon,
> 26 Nov 2001,
> Dave Hunt wrote:
>
> > Tom,
> >
> > I had both for a time, and may do so again.  What I found work best was
to
> > have two kernels, identical in all ways but one.  One kernel had Speakup
> > patched in, the other did not.  I had them on floppies, but you could
use
> > loadlin, lilo, whatever.  A warning:  When running Emacspeak, be sure
the
> > Speakup keymap isn't getting loaded.  For that matter, and perhaps more
> > important, be sure your Speakup key map loads when you're running
Speakup.
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> >
> >
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