Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

Sat Jan 21 00:20:27 EST 2012

Hello, Justin.

Yes, the script is called grml2hd. I haven't tried it as I do not have a 
hard drive to install to. I may try it under VirtualBox.

On 01/20/2012 07:55 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
> gmrl or grml?
>
> I was following the audio tutorial, and that option did not work for me. And in their FAQ, it did not sound like it was available. Maybe I didn't read it right.
>
> I ended up running grml-debootstrap
>
> I hope it's not too much of a pain lol. Why would it be?
>
> Justin
> On 20-01-2012, at 19:31, Kelly Prescott wrote:
>
>> I always use gmrl2hd and it works good for me...
>> I have a acer netbook ad another little one that I cannot think of the brand
>> of.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
>> On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
>> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:27 PM
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?
>>
>> 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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>> Ty
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