speakup with debian squeeze

[Jason White]

Jude DaShiell  <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
>I got a message from a friend telling me the latest version of debian 
>squeeze doesn't appear to be configured for speech with respect to the 
>bash shell.  Background for all of this is a sound card will be used for 
>speech.  The friend wants speakup to come up first and does not want gnome 
>with orca to start up unless he gives specific commands to start up the 
>graphical user interface and orca after he has logged in with speakup.  
>I'd like to know if it's possible to configure debian in this way too 
>since when I next do a debian install I plan to do my system this way too.

1. Install and configure speakup.

2. Make sure that gdm (either the gdm or gdm3 packages) is not installed, or
that its init script won't be run, e.g., chkconfig gdm3 off.

Upon boot, this should take you to a login prompt, and Speakup should start
during the boot process and read everything from there.

3. To start an X session, run startx from the shell. If Gnome is configured
properly, it and Orca should be run.