RedHat 9 and Speakup, almost...

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi, Adam,

     You can still compile Speakup into your kernel if desired.  I built
the RPMS with Speakup compiled as modules, because If RH accepts Speakup
at all, it seems that it must be modular.  Thomas has implied that he
knows for a fact that RH won't accept Speakup under any circumstances,
$DEITY knows how he knows that, but I'm still trying.

     As soon as the need for unregistering the UART goes away, we should 
be able to put the speakup initialization stuff into an initial RAM disk, so 
it should be loaded much earlier.  I even hold out the *hope* that it 
would be as early as if it were built-in, but time will tell.

          HTH.
-- 
          Bill in Denver


On Sat, 5 
Jul 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> 
> Man, that's the real draw-back of modularizing Speakup.  For me, the major
> selling point of Speakup is its capability of speaking earlier in the boot
> process than any DOS or Windows screen reader.  I realize that this gets
> sacrificed for software speech, but I hope it never goes away as an
> option in Speakup for those of us fortunate enough to own hardware speech
> synthesizers.
> 
> 
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