RedHat 9 and Speakup, almost...

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Janina!

Excellent.  Thanks for that very useful info.  I'll try it once I get a
hardware issue fixed on that box.  I decided to shut down the box
completely, only to discover the power button doesn't work.  Opened the
case, and there appears to be a physical problem with the button; it can't
hit the switch...  The box had been moved a number of times...  Yikes!

Hope we will have compiled Speakup for the new version.  The complete loss
of pre-login support is a big minus...

Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: RedHat 9 and Speakup, almost...


> 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)
>
> Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
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