creating a speakup cli cd

[Willem van der Walt]

What I do is to start up with the usb stick/cd and then simply press 
control-alt-f1 to get to a console with speakup.


On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Don Raikes wrote:

> I am certainly open to looking at both ubuntu and debian as the base systems.
>
> The problem with ubuntu and vinux is that the latest versions of ubuntu starting with precise utilize the unity desktop and that is a real accessibility nightmare.  I know there is a way to use the gnome-classic desktop but that seems a bit flaky to me.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Baechler [mailto:tony at baechler.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:00 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: creating a speakup cli cd
>
> Before you do that, look at Vinux.  It's already based on Ubuntu and includes Speakup, but it isn't specifically command line.  It also includes Gnome and Orca.  I didn't recommend it to you previously because it seemed to crash a lot in my tests, but that was quite a while ago.  Even if you go ahead and build your own CD from scratch, Vinux has done a lot of the basic steps for you.  To me, it doesn't make much sense to reinvent the wheel.  I personally would rather see efforts focused on the Debian live CD since the kernel already has Speakup included and it's just a matter of starting software speech at boot.  I did some initial experiments in this regard and it looked like it wouldn't take more than a few hours, but I admit that I don't know anything about how the boot loader works.  There are already packages to create a plain vanilla Debian live CD on your own system, so it should just be a matter of adding the espeakup, espeak and speakup-tools packages and making sur!
> e the sta
> rtup scripts work.  I might give this another go in a couple of weeks if no one beats me to it.
>
> On 2/5/2013 10:55 AM, Don Raikes wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I am starting work on a project to make a Speakup-enabled livecd that will boot to the console.
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>> The cd will be based on ubuntu precise and will include Speakup, espeakup and brltty for accessibility.
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>> Are there special parameters I need to pass to the kernel at boot to activate Speakup at start?
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