Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

[John G. Heim]

I happen to have just written a wiki  page on using the accessibility 
features of the latest grml release. Its on the web site of the 
International Association of visually  Impaired Technologists.  See:
http://wiki.iavit.org/index.php/Accessing_grml

I think you may have downloaded an older version of grml though. The current 
release does not have large, medium, and small versions. The 32 bit download 
is 315Mb.  It should beep at the isolinux prompt and it should play a 4 note 
tune through the PC speaker when its finished booting.

Anyway, to answer your questions, the speakup modules have not been removed 
but they are no longer built into the kernel. So that means you have to load 
them after boot. But that has been made easier because grml now plays a tune 
when its done booting.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Oats" <moats at orcon.net.nz>
To: <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:11 PM
Subject: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?


> 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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