Vinux

[James & Nash]

Hi Tony,

So how do you tell Debian that you want to use speakup during the 
installation?

Thanks

james lyn Nash and Twinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: Vinux


> Ah, this I understand.  I was unaware that the live CD would come up 
> talking.  That is a valid point and I can see why people would like that. 
> Oralux was supposed to do the same thing, but it didn't work for me. 
> Again, that opens up a bunch of other issues, such as what if there are 
> multiple sound cards?  What if Linux doesn't support the driver for your 
> sound card?  The advantage to something like grml is that you have more 
> flexibility, even though it requires typing the right thing within the 
> right number of seconds.  You can have software speech, hardware speech if 
> you have a hardware synth, or no speech if you would rather use ssh, or a 
> combination of the above.  I was working on someone else's machine when 
> for no obvious reason, grml lost software speech.  I couldn't do much 
> without speech, but it wasn't a problem.  I just set up dhcp, started an 
> ssh server and finished from a different machine.  Yes, a new blind user 
> won't know about that, but the point is that you aren't locked into one 
> method of doing things, even though it does mean entering boot parameters.
>
> I must say that I really like the way Debian handles this with the 
> installation.  It beeps to let you know that it's booted and doesn't 
> timeout right away.  It also is smart enough to install Speakup 
> automatically if you use it to do the install.
>
> John G. Heim wrote:
>> The main reason for something like vinux is that a lot of people have a 
>> hard time just getting started with linux. Over on a list for blind 
>> sysadmins, the question comes up just about every time someone mentions 
>> live CDs -- is there one that comes up talking without my having to just 
>> the right key at just the right time.
>>
>> People are already struggling with linux, they don't want to have to 
>> struggle to get speech started too.
>
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