Slack 13.37 and 14.0

[Alex Snow]

You could also install slackware using a serial console and then drop in 
whatever kernel you want to get hardware speach from Speakup...Slackware 
uses basicly a stock kernel.org kernel, so this isn't all that difficult.

On 5/14/2013 5:10 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
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> Since no one answered, I'll try my luck.  I don't use Slackware and
> haven't in a very long time.  If you're using hardware speech, Slack
> probably ships a newer kernel after 2.6.37 with broken serial support.
> The only two options are to use an older kernel or software speech.  I
> don't think Slackware supports software speech, but Debian does.  If
> you're running 32-bit, you might run into problems with big drives
> regardless of the kernel.  I would recommend installing 64-bit Debian
> Squeeze if your system can run 64-bit and upgrade to Wheezy from there.
> That still lets you use the older kernel with hardware speech while giving
> you the newer packages.  If you can use software speech, of course just
> installing Debian Wheezy directly is the better option.  I've ran both
> Debian Squeeze with the 2.6.32 kernel and Wheezy with the 3.2 kernel and
> several 3 TB drives in a RAID array with no problems.  As I'm sure you
> know, you probably don't want to use a 3 TB drive for boot.  I have a
> separate 1 TB RAID array for my boot drive and I've had no problems.
>
> In reading your message again, I have a question.  What happens with
> Debian if you use the standard Speakup keys to change your rate and pitch?
>   I use a DECtalk Express here and I've never had that problem.  In fact, I
> worked on fixing the driver and William incorporated my fixes with his own
> into the official Speakup module, so you should have a very good
> experience.  Someone else has reported random rate and pitch drops, but
> he's using a DECtalk USB.  I'm assuming you tried either the speakupconf
> script in the speakup-tools package or added lines to /etc/rc.local to set
> your rate and pitch, right?  If the standard Speakup keys aren't working,
> you might have a keyboard issue or there might be a bug in D-I.  Did you
> actually get Debian installed or is the problem you're having with the
> install CD?
>
> On 5/13/2013 10:06 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote:
>> New to this list and hoping you all can help with this problem.  I am
>> having issues with the last two versions of Slackware and getting
>> Speakup at install time. I have used Slackware back to version 7.0 with
>> no issues.
>>
>> For some reason, I can't get Speakup to load on either of these
>> releases. Using DEC Talk Express. Tried speakup.s, huge.s and hugesmp.s
>> since the latter two appear to have Speakup as well.
>>
>> I desperately need to get to a version that supports 3TB hard drives.
>> Considered switching to Debian, but ran into a Speakup issue there
>> too. Seems to be stuck at a default rate, and it won't let me change it
>> for session or otherwise.
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