gentoo dropping speakup support

[Sina Bahram]

In the spirit of open discovery, I will point out that I've never had any
problems with the accessibility of the ssh installation of gentoo.

I have sighted colleagues who never once have to use a monitor hooked up to
the target machine during a gentoo install, and only use ssh to accomplish
this, and I've done the same.


Take care,
Sina


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Zachary Kline
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 4:37 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: gentoo dropping speakup support

Hello,
    I would like to formally state that I disapprove of this removal.  It is
only thanks to Speakup being included in the default kernel that we are able
to perform unassisted installations of Gentoo at all.  This seems as if it
would be a great step backwards.
    Might I suggest that we attempt to contact the Speakup mailing list and
developers for information on this issue?
Thank you,
Zachary Kline.

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Hubbs" <williamh at gentoo.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: gentoo dropping speakup support


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> All,
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> because of this bug [1], gentoo linux will be dropping support for speakup

> in its official kernels starting at 2.6.22.
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> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177794
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> Is there any possibility at all that speakup could be moved into user 
> space as the bug suggests?  I feel that if we can go into user space this 
> will b a better approach.
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> Thanks,
>
> - -- 
> William Hubbs
> gentoo accessibility team lead
> williamh at gentoo.org
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