[announce] Debian Sarge SpeakUp iso

[Ryan Mann]

Hi.  I just tried to boot the Debian iso with Speakup and I didn't get any
speach.  Since I have a Doubletalk, I typed "speakup speakup_synth=dtlk"
at the boot prompt.



On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Shane Wegner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have created a Debian Sarge (testing) netinst iso which
> is Speakup enabled.  I have tested it myself and
> successfully installed Debian Sarge using this method.
>
> The iso and md5 checksum is available here
> http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/
>
> A few things of note if you are interested in testing this.
> First, this is by default a regular Debian netinst install
> CD, in order to enable speakup, you need to type something
> similar to the following at the boot prompt
> speakup speakup_synth=txprt
>
> Replace speakup_synth with the speakup synthesizer code of
> your synth.  Users with an Accent SA need not use a
> speakup_synth parameter as it is the default.  In this
> case, simply typing speakup is sufficient.
>
> One gotcha I have found so far is by default, the kernel
> installed on the target system in the base system
> installation is not SpeakUp enabled.  So, though the
> installation itself will talk, once the system is rebooted
> and Linux boots, there is no sspeech.  Further, d-i doesn't
> prompt you to choose a kernel by default.  To get around
> this, use the following at the initial boot prompt
> speakup DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium speakup_synth=xxxxxx
> Near the end of the installing, you will be prompted for
> the kernel to install, uparrow to the one with speakup in
> its name as opposed to 386 and you should have a talking
> system out of the box.
>
> I am interested in any bugreports related to the speakup
> integration aspect of this CD especially with systems on
> which I haven't tested it such as laptops.
>
> Shane
>
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