Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2!

Sat Mar 14 22:29:20 EDT 2009

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Hi all,

I would like to get this done on gentoo, I just haven't attempted to
coordinate it with release engineering yet.  My plan is for our latest
version of speakup and espeakup to go stable, then I will work with
release engineering to get it put onto our official cds.

I'm not sure how to build a minimal cd myself, but if there is interest,
I can ask release engineering about how that would be done for testing.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:10:59PM -0400, James Homuth wrote:
> Careful. Yall are making me consider playing with Arch Linux if only because
> of its Gentoo-like qualities, minus compiling. This is, IMHO, exactly the
> kind of CD that particular distro needs. Would anyone mind if I forward this
> thread to gentoo's accessibility project? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
> Sent: March 14, 2009 10:03 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2!
> 
> the .1 doesn't apply, I"m changing that so that the file is correct.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> Web: tysdomain.com
> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
> My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon at cox.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:57 PM
> Subject: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2!
> 
> 
> >I am proud to announce the second release of a modified ArchLinux install 
> >CD
> > that includes Speakup.
> > It is mostly equivalent to the official "ftp CD", but
> > the system should start speaking as soon as you boot with it.
> > Speech is provided via the sound card, using the eSpeak software 
> > synthesizer.
> > This CD is only available for the i686 platform; x86-64 is not supported.
> > There are two versions: an Isolinux version and a Grub version.
> > One may obtain ".iso" images via HTTP.
> >
> > Grub:
> > Download URL: http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso
> > MD5 sum: 932d49d5093e50d8c5fb14527afd17fa
> >
> > Isolinux:
> > Download URL:
> > http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686-isolinux.iso.1
> > MD5 sum: 28fa806a745e26424596259a71fc9d64
> >
> > Thanks to Tyler Littlefield for hosting these files.
> >
> > The following list of steps is a brief guide to installing ArchLinux
> > using this CD.
> > If anyone has trouble with it, send me a private email.
> > The instructions assume that your root partition will be mounted on /mnt.
> >
> > 0. When booting, Grub provides a very long timeout.  Press enter once the
> > drive stops spinning.
> >
> > 1. Use the installer on the CD, as per the beginner's guide.
> > 2. Install the alsa-utils and espeak packages:
> > pacman --root=/mnt -S alsa-utils espeak
> > 3. Install the speakup and espeakup packages.
> > These are not yet available in the community repository.
> > There are two ways to install them, depending on how much you trust me.
> >
> > Alternative 1: Use the binary packages from my website.  I promise that
> > the speakup package will always match the kernel version available from
> > the official ArchLinux repositories.
> > Append the following two lines to /etc/pacman.conf and 
> > /mnt/etc/pacman.conf:
> > [blind]
> > Server = {http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/blind/i686}
> > Install the packages from my custom repository:
> > pacman --root=/mnt -Sy speakup espeakup
> >
> > Alternative 2: Build the packages from source, using the PKGBUILDs 
> > available
> > from the Arch User Repository.  For convenience, the URLs are:
> > {http://aur.archlinux.org/download/speakup/speakup.tar.gz}
> > {http://aur.archlinux.org/download/espeakup/espeakup.tar.gz}
> > If I were going to choose this option, I would probably chroot into the
> > newly installed ArchLinux system in order to build the packages.
> >
> > 4. Customize /mnt/etc/rc.conf:
> > Add speakup and speakup_soft to the MODULES array.  Add alsa and espeakup 
> > to
> > the DAEMONS array.
> >
> > 5. You also need to save the state of the sound card, so that it will be
> > retrieved on reboot.
> > Execute the command "alsactl store" and copy the file /etc/asound.state to
> > /mnt/etc/asound.state.
> > Alternatively, alsactl -f /mnt/etc/asound.state store
> >
> > 6. When you boot the system from the hard disk, it should start speaking.
> >
> > The ArchLinux developers build their CD images using a set of shell 
> > scripts
> > and configuration files named archiso.  I added a configuration to archiso
> > that allows me to build accessible CDs.
> > If someone wants to master customized images containing Speakup, he should
> > do the following.
> >
> > Grab sources using git:
> > git clone http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/archiso.git
> > git checkout --track -b talkinginst origin/talkinginst
> > All of my work is done on the "talkinginst" branch.  The master branch
> > mirrors the master branch from git://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git
> > Now you have a copy in archiso/.  Install the scripts contained in
> > archiso/archiso.
> >
> > In order to create the image, pacman needs to be able to find the speakup
> > and espeakup packages.
> > Add my custom [blind] package repository to /etc/pacman.conf on the host
> > system, as described in the instructions for installing from CD.
> > Change to the archiso/configs/talkinginst directory, and type "make 
> > ftp-iso".
> > Alternatively, "make BOOTLOADER=syslinux ftp-iso"" yields an image having
> > Isolinux as its bootloader.
> > There are several more targets for "make".  For instance, ftp-usb produces
> > an image suitable for a flash drive.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with ArchLinux.
> > I don't even have Trusted User status in the community.
> > This CD image is not an official release.  It is not endorsed by anyone 
> > other
> > than myself.  It is provided solely for the convenience of its creator
> > and other blind users.      It comes with absolutely no warranty.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> > -- Chris
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup 
> 
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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
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