installing speakup on the netbook

Pia pmikeal at comcast.net
Thu Feb 11 19:27:44 EST 2010


I apologize for being off topic and not answering your question, but this 
brings up a good question.  What is everyone's opinion about what the most 
Speakup / Linux compatible Netbook is out there?  I am wondering what 
would work best and also what distros.

Thanks,

Pia

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> Hello all,
> I just recently got an aces netbok, and used grml with software speech to run a debootstrap.
> The grml system works great with the hardware, and i have software speech, ethernet and sound for the install.
> After I get it all installed, I don't have ethernet to run off of, so the idea was to put speakup on the system and use it to install and compile the drivers.
> I'm having an issue, and I was wondering if anyone has found a workaround.
>
> What I did was built speakup in a chroot, and pointed it to the linux headers for the kernel on the debian system, so it could build against those. I installed the modules, and have espeakup set to start at boot, with speakup_soft in the /etc/modules list.
> I have Alsa installed, but am not receiving any sound; has anyone found a way to get that half of the mess working?
>
>
> 		Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> 	http://tds-solutions.net
> 	Twitter: sorressean
>
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