Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2!

[James Homuth]

He corrected it later, indicating it was not intended. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Arthur Pirika
Sent: March 17, 2009 2:50 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2!

Hi, while the cd works perfectly, the repository you gave for packages for
espeakup and speakup doesn't work, from the web browser or the arch system. 
The web browser gives a server not found message, and the package system
appeared to hang when I issued pacman -Sy with the blind repo active. Also,
did you intend for there to be curly brackets around the http link for the
repo?

thanks,
Arthur.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon at cox.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:57 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
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