gentoo dropping speakup support (fwd)

[Deedra Waters]

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:35:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Deedra Waters <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
To: covici at ccs.covici.com,
    Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: gentoo dropping speakup support

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, John covici wrote:

> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:24:31 -0400
> From: John covici <covici at ccs.covici.com>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: gentoo dropping speakup support
>
> As you said in your comment this will be a great step backwards -- I
> was able to install gentoo on a laptop without assistance because of
> speakup being built in and now that ubuntu has dropped it, this would
> be no good.  How about just saying its not selectable for spark and
> seeing if we can get it to work for 2.6.22 elsewhere which I am sure
> Kirk is working on?

It's not just sparc, it's just not building in general, from what i
gather from daniel drake and kirk it's flat out broken in .22.


>
> The user space idea may be something worth considering as we no longer
> get the boot messages we used to get, however this would be a much
> bigger change.  Kirk is working on a git patch set which may help, but
> its broke right now.
>
>
> on Sunday 06/17/2007 William Hubbs(williamh at gentoo.org) wrote
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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
>  >
>  > 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,
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>  > William Hubbs
>  > gentoo accessibility team lead
>  > williamh at gentoo.org
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