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[Techswing33]

Hello,

How long does that boot prompt stay onscreen for those who don't have
pc speakers on their motherboards, a lot of them these days don't come
with one, or who are doing it in a virtual machine?

Thanks.
Dave.


On 12/10/13, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:01:19PM -0500, Kyle wrote:
>> As I recall, espeakup is on the install CD, but it doesn't run
>> automatically. If I remember correctly, I was able to wait about a
>> minute to be sure the system was fully up and running and then run
>>
>> espeakup
>>
>> to get it talking. I don't recall needing to emerge anything. Hope this
>> helps.
>
> actually it is even easier.
>
> When you hear the beep that lets you know you are at the boot prompt,
> you should be able to type:
>
> gentoo speakup.synth=soft
>
> and it should start talking.
>
> Let me know if this doesn't work.
>
> William
>
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