Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

[Marcel Oats]

Thanks folks, I'll try modprobe speakup_soft.
Also, lets hope grml-live works reliably now.

Marcel



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From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:48 PM
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

> 
> Speakup is included however the accessability boot options are gone.
> Boot the cd, wait for the beeps from the speaker, hit q to exit the 
> quick config screen then key in
> modprobe speakup_soft
> espeakup
> 
> You should get speech.
> Options to load into ram still exist on the cheatsheet as far as I can 
> tell and you can still do
> <tab> ssh=password
> to get an ssh server running on the box.
> 
> Regards, kerry.
> 
> On 12/01/2012 10:11 AM, Marcel Oats wrote:
>> Hi, I am fairly sure this has been answered before, so excuse me.  I
>> just downloaded grml2011.12 (both 64 and 32bit versions) and noticed
>> that their "large" distribution (around 700mb of iso) is no longer
>> available. They do not mention speakup support in their list of boot
>> options.
>> I am wanting to use this as you can load the squashfs into ram and have
>> it run from there; I usually remaster it so as additional programmes
>> that I have included are available, and we have software speech, instead
>> of having to rely on a hardware synth.
>> I might have to look for another distro, and hope that it is possible to
>> load the squashfs filesystem into ram as well.
>>
>> Useful to do such things as running Terabyte's Image for Linux and
>> create BD backups is an example of the kinds of uses I have.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marcel
>>
>>
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