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[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Tony. Well, Speakup wouldn't work on the FBSD kernel, but I have a
custumized boot disk for FBSD 4.4 that allows you to get speech output via a
term program for the install and restart. You need some serial cables and a
good term program as minicom under Linux, or hyper terminal to get it going.
A friend and I are thinking eventually in porting Emacspeak to FBSD, and it
looks like it is possible.
As for Seuse Linux haven't played around with it for several versions.
However, the braille support looks intresting. Well, if you need help
building a speech distribution of Seuse perhaps I can help some.
Esentually, what you do here is build a zImage of the kernel for the boot
disk and make a boot disk like the cdrom.img or what ever they use. Then,
you make a standard bzImage with all the features they use in there kernel,
and then you patch Seuse, and make a new set of kernel rpm's and put them on
the cd instead of the old ones.
I've not actually done this before, but I have a pretty good idea of what is
involved. I had studied up a while back on seeing if I could make Mandrake
speakup ready, and I could have except it was a lot of work I didn't feel
like doing at the time.