RedHat 9 and Speakup, almost...

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Darrell:

Since you installed 2.4.20-18.9spk2, you're now using the new,
pre-release, version of what will eventually be called Speakup 2.0.
That's the meaning of "spk2" at the end of that filename. In this
version of Speakup, the synthesizer drivers are modularized. Of course,
you could compile them into the kernel, but that's not how they're used
in the rpm you installed.

So, under your current circumstances, you will not have speech during
the boot or login process. Once in, however, you can launch Speakup as
follows:


setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
modprobe speakup_$1


Since that's probably too much to type reliably without spoken feedback,
I've placed this (plus one more command) in a script file in my
/usr/local/sbin. In my .bash_profile I create an alias to it.

My script is called startspeakup.sh, and my alias is ss. I define it
asfollows:

alias ss="/usr/local/sbin/startspeakup.sh $1"


The '$1' allowsme to type any Speakup keyword. For example, using the
Litetalk I type:

ss ltlk

and Speakup comes up chattering as always.

Of course, you have to be sure to set permissions appropriately--or to
call this as root.

PS: My additional command is based on the fact that I store Speakup
related settings for different synthesizers under /etc/speakup. So, the
third line of my script says:


cp -r /etc/speakup/`cat /proc/speakup/synth_name`/* /proc/speakup

whereby I get the speed and punctuation settings I want by default, etc.

Eventually, there will be other ways, but this is the only way I know
right nowPPS: I have not succeeded placing these calls in my
/etc/rc.local.



Darrell Shandrow writes:
> From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at azboss.net>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> OK.  So I now have one of my systems upgraded from Red Hat 8 to Red Hat 9.
> I accomplished that using the text telnet method described previously.
> 
> I have also installed the following two Speakup specific RPMs from
> ftp.linux-speakup.org:
> kbd-1.08-4spk.i386.rpm
> kernel-2.4.20-18.9spk2.i686.rpm
> 
> While I can successfully ssh into my system, after having to temporarily
> disable iptables, Speakup does not speak despite the following
> /boot/grub/grub.conf contents:
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.9spk2)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9spk2 ro root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=acntpc
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.9spk2.img
> # title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=acntpc
> # initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
> 
> What am I missing here?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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