Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

Littlefield, Tyler tyler at tysdomain.com
Fri Jan 20 21:26:43 EST 2012


They do have a gRML2hd, but I've never managed to get that working, so 
good luck. I always just used debootstrap and installed Debian, but 
that's kind of a pain.
On 1/20/2012 7:14 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
> I actually downloaded this to take a look. I waited for the jingle and typed
>
> modprobe speakup_soft
> followed by
> espeakup
>
> and after I pressed enter it did eventually come up speaking, but it had an error saying that it could not access a certain source, but I just pressed return and it started working, review keys etc.
>
> Now I'm just looking for how to install it on the hard drive partition. In the FAQ of GRML, it looks as though it is not obvious.
>
> Regards
> Justin Harford
> On 20-01-2012, at 16:14, Glenn wrote:
>
>> Hi Kerry,
>> I tried these, as they sound like the same as Orca, but nothing came out
>> when navigating with those keys.
>> It must be that I did all on the same line to call up espeak.
>> Glenn
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kerry Hoath"<kerry at gotss.net>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?
>>
>>
>>
>> obviously modprobe speakup_soft
>> and
>> espeakup
>> are 2 separate commands you run after hitting q to exit the grml
>> quickstart wizard.
>>
>> Once speech is loaded you can use the speakup review commands to get
>> around the screen. to get keyboard echo you echo 1
>>> /sys/accessibility/speakup/key_echo or similar it is in there somewhere.
>> to move by lines use capslock u i o, words are j k l and characters m ,
>> and .
>>
>> capslock and the numbers do volume, pitch and speed.
>> There is a help key can't remember what it is but there is documentation
>> on linux-speakup.org somewhere with all the key bindings.
>>
>> Regards, Kerry.
>>
>> On 20/01/2012 12:41 PM, Glenn wrote:
>>> Kerry,
>>> I downloaded the 32 bit version of GRML, and used the USB installer and
>>> put
>>> it onto my 4GB thumbdrive.
>>> I ran:
>>> modprobe speakup_soft espeakup
>>> And I got speech, but it does not echo my typing, nor can I find a way of
>>> reviewing what is on the screen.
>>> I am familiar with Orca, in Ubuntu, but this has me stumped.
>>> This is on an Asus ePc which runs XP okay, I don't remember if I upgraded
>>> the RAM to 1GB or 2GB, but either way, it should be enough.
>>> How do I control the speech better?
>>> Thanks
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Kerry Hoath"<kerry at gotss.net>
>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:48 PM
>>> 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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