Speakup-enabled kernels

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Tue Jun 19 14:08:44 EDT 2001


Last time I checked on the speakup site,
it was 2.2.16 with speakup 0.09.
Greg


On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:42:23AM -0700, Holmes, Steve wrote:
> I can speak from a slackware point of view; you can start with a speakup
> enabled bootdisk from the speakup site.  I don't know what version this is
> right now.  From the slackware site under the slackware-current/bootdsks.144
> you can find speakup.i and speakup.s which are boot disks for IDE and SCSI
> devices respectively.  You then get the standard root disk, color.gz from
> slackware-current/rootdsks.
> 
> This is the upcoming version 7.2 of slackware but is not yet stabilized.
> See ChangeLog.txt in the slackware-current directory for the up to the
> minute news.  It looks like 7.2 could be out in the next few weeks; they are
> trying to nail things down but I still see some changes getting shoe horned
> in.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Tsaran [mailto:tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl]
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 5:46 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels
> 
> 
> But, I could find the boot disks only. Where are the regular kernels then?
> Thanks,
> Victor
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Cc: "Speakup List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels
> 
> 
> > Yes, Victor, we have full distributions which are fully speakup enabled.
> > That means that the kernels are already patched with speakup, and the boot
> > disks are already speakup enabled. All a user need do is to indicate their
> > synth and it's connection point at the first (non speaking) prompt. After
> > that, the install is speakup enabled, with full screen review via the
> > numeric keypad.
> >
> > At least, this is how the Redhat distributions genned by Bill Acker work.
> > Someone else will have to speak up for slackware and debian, as I have no
> > experience there.
> >
> > PS: Pun intended.
> >  On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, listers!
> > > Yes, I did use Speakup for installation purposes mostly and when the
> machine was in all kinds of troubles. However, today someone mentioned that
> one can download Speakup-enabled kernels. Are these boot kernels that people
> talked about? Does anybody have regular kernels with Speakup already
> compiled in?
> > > Best,
> > > Vic
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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