[announce] Debian Sarge SpeakUp iso

[hank]

how did you get the screen to work with vmware?
just curious.
I had trouble getting the full screen to show up so I could install the
thing
thanks
hank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Murphy" <smmail at tpg.com.au>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: [announce] Debian Sarge SpeakUp iso


> Hi Shane.
>
> I have installed your ISO on a laptop under VMWare and it worked.  Since I
> am very new to Speakup, there was a lot of commands that I didn't know at
> the time.  Now I have done some homework and are starting to learn the
> commands.
>
>
> Sean
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shane Wegner" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783 at cm.nu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:50 PM
> Subject: [announce] Debian Sarge SpeakUp iso
>
>
> > 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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