Good news

[Saqib Shaikh]

He was thinking of just the bare image, without Speakup in it.

Saqib
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romualt.dhs.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: Good news


> Exactly which kernel would have the doubletalk pc driver in it? If you put
that into a kernel and speakup, then neither driver has a chance of working.
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 07:40:31AM +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Having just finished my exams yesterday, I've been talking to Patrick
> > Volkerding (aka Mr Slackware). He's very interested in accessibility. As
you
> > may know he already has Speakup boot-disks in the original distribution.
> >
> > I asked him if he would consider adding Emacspeak, and there and then,
he
> > did it! He asked if you needed other software to use different devices,
and
> > I told him you needed Emacspeak-SS for other synths. He added this too!
And
> > then, he added BrlTTY as well, and is considering adding Flite and
NFBTrans
> > (though maybe not in 8.1).
> >
> > So all in all, with Redhat having Emacspeak, Debian coming with
> > Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/Brltty, and Slackware coming with all of
> > Speakup/Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/BrlTTY and offering to compile the
Doubletalk
> > PC driver into the default kernel, Linux and console accessibility
really
> > does look good (IMHO).
> >
> > Just thought I'd let you guys know this, and look forward to Slackware
8.1
> > being released.
> >
> > Saqib
> >
> >
> >
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