Speakup available? (wasRE: patched debian kernels)

Pawel Loba pawel at velcom.ca
Sun Feb 16 09:11:06 EST 2014


Hi,
I assume you too have no usable sight so when your Debian 7.x net
installation starts up meaning you heard a beep sound you can press your
down arrow 6 time for 32-bit or 7 times for 64-bit installation with speech.
See if this works for you. I assume you don't have any Braille display to
connect to this machine don't you?
Hth,
Pawel.
-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Albert
Sten-Clanton
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:34 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speakup available? (wasRE: patched debian kernels)

Hello.

I'm using Fedora 20 with speech.  I'm thinking of switching distros, and
Debian's one I'm considering.   

Yes, not getting speech seems strange.  I had the same trouble a few months
ago.  On my old machine, I did get Speakup when doing the right thing at the
prompt.  I do get Speakup when booting up the Arch CD.  

Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Pawel
Loba
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:13 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speakup available? (wasRE: patched debian kernels)

Hi,
Have you got any linux distro working on this system with speech before?
This is rather strange that your Debian 7.X net installation doesn't kick in
after pressing the letter S and enter unless your sound card is not
recognized.
You need to wait for a beep sound to press letter s though.
Hth,
Pawel.
-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Albert
Sten-Clanton
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:17 PM
To: 'Glenn'; 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speakup available? (wasRE: patched debian kernels)

I think I tried control-s and it didn't work.  I believe that's for bringing
up Orca on some distros.

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Glenn
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:12 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup available? (wasRE: patched debian kernels)

Is it control + S?
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:45 AM
Subject: Speakup available? (wasRE: patched debian kernels)


First, thanks to John for the kernel patch.  Whether I get to use it or not,
I do appreciate it.

Second, I tried this week to use both the Debian live CD (7.2, I think) and
the 32-64-bit install CD, 7.3 if I remember right.  As I understand the
installation guide, I should be able to get speakup, at least on the latter,
by typing the letter s at the boot prompt and hitting ENTER.  It didn't
work.  I tried arrowing to the right option, but that also failed.  I tried
lower and upper case.  I tried with both the live CD and the net-installer
one.

Also, when I allowed the live CD to boot up, I could not get Orca -- at
least, I didn't hear it.  I could reboot or shut down after going to a
console terminal, so I figure the CD is probably working right, but without
speech there didn't seem to be much else useful I could do.

Can anybody tell me what might be going wrong, or what I might be doing
wrong?  If it's a case of muted sound, how would I fix that?  (The usual
amixer command that I use to raise the volume did nothing.) I've so far
found no help with this through Google searches, even though I know there
has been some correspondence about Weezy and Speakup.

I'm using a 64-bit machine.

Thanks for any guidance.

Al

-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of John
G. Heim
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 4:18 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: patched debian kernels

All,

I've uploaded some patched debian kernels to the IAVIT web site.These
kernels include my fix for the speakup serial hardware speech bug.  For
instructions, point a browser to http://www.iavit.org/~john/debian/.


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John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
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