hello from a new member

[Alonzo]

hello,

You oculd also install speakup as a module.
You can downlaod it from git
git clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup;git
You would change to the speakup directory then change to src once in the 
speakup directory.
then you do
make
make install_modules (this last command... I always get confused with) it 
could be make modules_install
then you would download espeakup
git clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/espeakup.git
You woudl then change to the espeakup direcotry and do
make
make install
Note- when installing the above compiled package from source you need to 
have the header packages for your kurnel. Enable to install espeakup you 
need espeak synth, and portaudio. You will also need the libraries for 
espeakup and portaudio.
I am not sure what packages you need f or the two distros.
for ubuntu it should be libportaudio and linux headers for your kernel i386 
or x8664 and hte kernel version. So it could be linux headers 2.6.27-i386 or 
x8664. for the development files for espeak it might be espeak-dev or 
libespeak. I'm not sure what packages you wouudl need for opensuse. these 
are just packages for ubuntu. Debian renames their packages, so you may find 
them with different names in Ubuntu.

Alonzo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: hello from a new member


> Hello,
> Not using either of those distros I don't know if they have a way you can 
> create a kernel with speakup and make it a package you install. If they do 
> then you might want to go that route as hopefully you would use basically 
> the same config and so might be able to use the modules from the distro.
>
> An alternative is to look at those distros which include speakup or 
> speakup packages (this is why I stick with slackware, although it doesn't 
> allow installing by software synth). GRML (www.grml.org) is debian based 
> and has a software synth on the CD. You may want to look at it. GRML can 
> be run as a live CD (good for system maintainance or just learning about 
> speakup), or you can install GRML to hard disk, or there is a script to 
> create a debian installation.
>
> If you resort to just generic instructions for compiling a kernel with 
> speakup, there are many docs online about compiling kernels. One I use 
> (mainly because I use slackware) is the slackware details for creating a 
> speakup enabled kernel (although fairly generic)
> ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/source/k/README_SPEAKUP_PATCH.TXT 
> <ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/source/k/README_SPEAKUP_PATCH.TXT>
> . If you aren't using an existing config which specifies using speakup 
> then remember when configuring the kernel (make menuconfig) to enable 
> speakup and the software synth option. Also some distos (I think ubuntu is 
> one of them) use grub instead of lilo, make sure that you update grub so 
> it knows about the new kernel if grub is used instead of updating lilo.
>
> It really is easier to start with a pre-compiled kernel (particularly if 
> you aren't used to kernel configuration).
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> On 23/12/42 20:59, Aruni Sharma wrote:
>> hello listers. this is Aruni from india. I have started using linux
>> quite recently. I have been a windows user. I am trying to switch to
>> linux. I have tried ubuntu and opensuse 11.1 beta. Could someone guide
>> me how to install speakup and use it on these two distros? Please note
>> that I use software synths.
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Aruni.
>>
>>
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