Speakup and Suse 9.3 Professional

[Michael whapples]

Hello,
You can find the package that suse uses at,
ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/blinux/src/
This contains documentation for it. In fact the version there says it does 
support combibraille.
From
Michael Whapples
"An optamist is someone who has never had much experience"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup and Suse 9.3 Professional


> Hi, yes i've seen people working with Braile and a software-speach, on a
> suse system.
>
> They told me some Brailedisplays would be automatically detect during
> installation and it would be switched in a textmodus and all should be
> usable by a blind person.
>
> but my combibraile does not belong to the braildisplays , which will be
> detected.
> I saw a site on the web, sblinux or blinux? where these displays are
> mentioned.
>
> Sorry i can be of more help.
>
> The braildriver is called sblinux, if memory serves me right.
>
> Good luck,
> Lutz
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:29 PM
> Subject: RE: Speakup and Suse 9.3 Professional
>
>
>> Right.  Sounds like this job could be a bit more of a challange than I
>> thought.
>>
>> Realisticly, do you think someone can work with Suse using speech or
>> Braille?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
>> Sent: 06 July 2005 14:30
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> Subject: Re: Speakup and Suse 9.3 Professional
>>
>>
>> We tried patching Speakup into a Suse kernel on two separate occasions
>> and were ultimately unsuccessful. We were able to get the kernel patched
>> and able to get Speakup to speak initially during boot, but the kernel
>> Oops'd, and we never got beyond that.
>>
>> We also tried Brltty on Suse with mixed results, but this was before I
>> understood about suse-blinux.
>>
>> Darragh writes:
>> > Hello,
>> > I've done some searching and although it looks like speakup isn't
> included
>> in suse 9.3 right from installation it does seem possible
>> > to patch the kernel with it after installation.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately I've a bit of a problem. I need to provide support for
>> installations of Suse 9.3 Professional. This will mean that
>> > I'll need to get speakup working during installation or I'll need to
> find
>> another way of independantly installing Suse with either
>> > speech or Braille support.
>> >
>> > I would be for ever in debt of the person who can help me out with 
>> > this.
>> >
>> > I do have a Pacmate 40 cell Braille display. I think someone told me a
> few
>> years ago that BrailleTTY could provide Braille support
>> > during installation of Suse. Is this correct?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help you can provide.
>> >
>> >
>> > Darragh
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