Talking Arch Linux Installer

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

hmmm, as I recall and this was done several years ago, I just put the
patch in the kernel -- since you have to compile it anyway -- and it
talked first time on reboot, but it was a while ago and I would hesitate
to say exactly.

Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:

> slackware isn't talking yet.  That may change though since Patrick
> Volkerding found out all the hardware synthesizers that were able to
> have slackware talking have been disabled by a block the linux kernel
> folks put in the kernels.  Patrick is considering putting the whole
> espeakup dependency stack on slackware install disks as a result of
> the breakage. Patrick tried the patch supplied by John Heim here on
> speakup and found that it works but if espeakup module is ever removed
> it results in a kernel panic and a system crash.
> Gentoo does talk, but to the best of my knowledge nobody has done a
> podcast episode explaining how to use the speakup facilities to gentoo
> installed in such a way that gentoo comes up talking on first reboot
> after system installation is complete.  If I can get that podcast
> episode, I'll be installing gentoo here on at least one large hard
> disk I have.
> 
> 
> 
> -- Twitter: JudeDaShiell
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Techswing33 wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Adding to this I'm using arch Linux in a VMware virtual environment,
> > workstation11, and talking arch does not work in this setup. I'm
> > suspecting it has something to do with the hdaudio driver emulating a
> > 7.1 surround as opposed to the older es1371, but I have not found a
> > fix.
> >
> > Unrelated, but if either Gentoo or slackware are talking I'd like to
> > know about them.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Dave.
> >
> >
> > On 4/15/15, Joseph C. Lininger <devnull-speakup at pcdesk.net> wrote:
> >> Thanks guys. As a corelary, if any assistance is needed in maintaining
> >> this installation media or anything, I would be happy to help. My
> >> experience is mostly with Gentoo, Slackware, and currently picking up
> >> Arch Linux.
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