Getting speakup talking on the Ssystem Rescue CD

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 05:46:46PM -0400, Andrew Hart wrote:
> Thanks a lot.  That sure did it.

You're welcome.

> It is rather misleading though that they have a bold statement on the  
> System Rescue CD home page saying that blind folks can use it, etc.  

Like I said, the speakup info needs updating, or speakup has to be put
back into sysresccd, if Francois concludes that it could be done
without too much hassle. I'll try to find time this week to either
update things myself, or send Francois a note with the relevant info.

> Oh, and Adam, I didn't initially bother with nofb because the Rescue CD  
> manual said that the kernel called rescuecd has the frame buffer,  
> whatever that is, turned off by default.  Aparrently other kernels on  
> the CD have it turned on.  I don't know if this is true of V0.3.7  
> though.  I have booted it just once so far and, to be on the safe side,  
> I included nofb per your example.  I ran it long enough to figure out  
> how to mount my fat32 and ntfs partitions and to check that partimage  
> runs.  It is going to be an interesting experience to have speech  
> support throughout entire backup and restore operations for the first  
> time since the days of MS DOS, Fastback and Conner Backup Executive!

The only options you need to pass at the boot prompt to use speakup
are "nokeymap speakup_synth=xxx, speakup_quiet=1". I seem to recall
that nokeymap also turns off the framebuffer by default, but am not
sure on that.

Greg


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