Shane's kernels

[Daniel Dalton]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:36:50AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:

>> Well, forget etch, but look at lenny which should be released soon, what

I should probably have said: etch has brltty in the installer and in
aptitude, but since I don't use it, I don't know if it contains speakup
or orca.
I don't think it does, but someone can correct me, I think it just has brltty.
Lenny has speakup, orca, brltty and a braille installer.

>> is missing?
>> - orca
>> - brltty
>> - speakup modules
>> All in aptitude ready to go.
>>
> Well, the obvious thing that's missing is an already compiled kernel
> image 
> which includes Speakup.  Unless I'm mistaken, the Speakup modules
> package is
> just source.  You still have to compile the modules yourself.  If they
> were already compiled so that installing them would set up speech for
> you, that 
> would be great.

Use module-assistent, have you installed speakup-doc and read the
installation notes for debian? Works fine for me, and very easy to do.
No need to build a kernel from source, but it won't build the synth into
the kernel just as modules.

> Even after you compile the modules, you still have to adjust your boot 
> configuration to start Speakup with what synth you want.  

True I guess, but you can modprobe it then edit /etc/modules.

I only use software speech, so not sure how you would tell it what port
your synth is on, if you are using modprobe and your synth driver is
built as a module...


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