Integrating Speakup/ESpeakup into Debian boot process

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Wed Apr 8 01:26:02 EDT 2009


Cheryl Homiak  <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
>Well, I can see how you might have debian accessibility issues for other 
>reasons, but as far as using espeakup, as has been mentioned in other 
>posts, it's really quite straightforward. Espeakup came up automatically 
>as soon as I put the line for the soft module into /etc/modules. Orca is 
>also working well for me and it worked "out of the box" without a lot of 
>troubleshooting. The only thing i have to watch with debian 
>unstable is that I don't let an upgrade remove something important, so 
>sometimes I have to delay an upgrade. Other than that, I plan to continue 
>with debian at least for now. 

I agree completely.

The advice earlier in this thread was correct: adding the module to
/etc/modules brought SpeakUP right into the boot process.





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