Need help getting debian installation media speaking

[Sean McMahon]

On the subject of debian, does debian include speakup if you just downloaded the
official iso images?
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry at wasaga.dyns.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: Need help getting debian installation media speaking


> Hi Michael and everyone,
>
> The best speakup-enabled Debian installer that I've seen so far is at:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/
>
> Thanks Shane!
>
> The CD image that I got there was from January 27/05.
>
> Boot with the CD, when the disk stops spinning type:
>
> speakup speakup_synth=<your synth>
>
>  and it installs everything you want from the net.
>
> Hope this helps, Debian is a great OS.
>
> --terry
>
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:13:46AM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I need some help getting Debian sarge installed. I believed that debian now
> > has speakup included in the main distro, but when I tried starting it with
> > the speakup_synth parameter, it never spoke. So I tried the boot floppies
> > from the speakup website, which worked, except my computer stopped
> > responding to the keyboard when I loaded the first disk, but everything
> > else was ready for the next disk. I tried doing things like disable usb
> > support, but no success. So I tried the CD image from the speakup website,
> > but I could not get speakup talking with that. Can anyone help with this?
> > If not then I will look at other distributions, but the others seem to have
> > their own problems, gentoo software speech doesn't seem to work well and
> > slackware requires most programs which will be used to be manually built
> > from source. I don't intend to use fedora, there seems to be too many
> > problems when it is updated because speakup is not in the standard
> > distribution.
> > From
> > Mike
> > "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience"
> >
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> -- 
>
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