gentoo

[deedra at the-brannons.com]

If you want my opinion i suggest using the talking arch cd to install
gentoo. You dont have to worry about passing it commandline
arguments. The software speech just comes up talking right away.

http://the-brannons.com/tarch

Techswing33 <techswing33 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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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>>
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