Speakup in user space, why or why not?

Sina Bahram sbahram at nc.rr.com
Sun Oct 2 16:07:33 EDT 2005


Hi Janina,

The point is one of personal curiocity, questions about software
engineering, and just general interest in why.

I really would like to know if something like this is possible, and if the
only reason for having it in the kernel is for boot messages.

Plus, I like SpeakUP, *smile*

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 3:38 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup in user space, why or why not?

Sina, I don't understand the "why" of your question.

You already have emacspeak, speech-dispatcher, and yasr for speech as user
space based access. You So, what's the point?

Sina Bahram writes:
> I thank you all for one fact. I have learned that I need to learn how 
> to write emails better.
> 
> I will never, ever again, mention an example!
> 
> Please do not suggest ways of making FreeBSD accessible ... It was an 
> off hand comment. I did not imply that FreeBSD is inaccessible because 
> it doesn't have SpeakUP on it or anything ... I was simply using it as 
> an example.
> 
> I know about BrailleTTY, I know about YASR, and I know about 
> EmacSpeak, and some other stuff ... That's not the point of my email
though, my friends.
> 
> User space ... That is the question: user space.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Garrett Klein
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:40 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Speakup in user space, why or why not?
> 
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> Another option is using yasr with FreeBSD, after instalation of 
> course. Note that I've never actually tried this myself, but in theory it
should work.
> 
> Garrett
> 
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 01:34:40PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 02:03:37PM -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> > > For example, I want to learn FreeBSD, because a friend of mine has 
> > > been telling me all about it, and I'd like to play around with it.
> > > I would, of course, like to use speakup with it. Could this be
possible?
> 
> > 
> > Yes, it could. Netbsd, and probably freebsd as well allows you to 
> > install the system via a serial console. Once that's done, you can 
> > use ssh on a speakup-enabled gnu/linux system to access your freebsd 
> > box, thus being able to use speakup in freebsd (grin). Seriously 
> > though, yes, I know this isn't exactly what you meant, but not 
> > having speakup run in user space is not a big obstacle to using 
> > freebsd, provided that you have at least 2 computers that you can 
> > use, one to run gnu/linux, and the other to run freebsd.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
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