Main advantages of SBL over Speakup

[John G. Heim]

Well, perhaps its a minor point but plenty of modern computers have serial 
ports. I've never seen a server that didn't have a serial port. In fact, 
except for laptops, I have yet to see a computer that doesn't have a serial 
port. That includes the 200 or so desktop units we have where I work. Even 
the machine I built myself has a serial port.

It certainly is a huge over statement to say that having speakup in the 
kernel  has no advantage. If you manage servers like I do, having speakup in 
the kernel is just about the most important thing there is for a screen 
reader. I don't really care that much about what happens after the machine 
is booted. About the only time I need a run time screen reader is if 
something is wrong with networking. But mostly, I can admin these machines 
remotely after they boot.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor Astrope" <astrope at tabbweb.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Main advantages of SBL over Speakup


Samuel, do you mean there is no kernel convention for accessing serial
ports or there is no speakup support for accessing serial ports according
to kernel conventions?

It would be really great if speakup could use ttyS# devices, so speakup
would work with modern motherboards that do not have built-in serial
ports. The way I see it is speakup can only use software speech on modern
computers, so unless it can access external serial ports or usb serial
ports, there really is no advantage to speakup being in the kernel so far
as I can tell...

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Bill Cox, le Tue 09 Feb 2010 14:23:25 -0500, a écrit :
>> I hear that it doesn't follow kernel
>> programming conventions, for example in how it interfaces to the COM
>> ports.
>
> Yes, because no such thing exists (yet).
>
> Samuel
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