GRML and Speakup

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

The beep volume is out of the internal speaker -- mine is pretty low, in
fact.

Edgar Lozano <1419goku at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for those instructions on enabling Speakup within GRML. It
> definitely works. However, is there a way to turn the beep volume down
> before booting? I was startled by the very loud four-beep sequence
> that my laptop generated upon entering the root prompt.
> Rob, you make it sound so easy. That is, building LFS with Speakup.
> Are there any concrete example you may be able to give to accomplish
> this. Maybe like a short summary of the commands you had to enter to
> enable the staging tree driver? I must admit, I am a relative newcomer
> to the Linux world, and probably the most advanced task that I've done
> has been to install Arch successfully on an old computer, with the aid
> of the Talking Arch image, of course. However, I want to dig deeper
> into the Linux development structure so that I can start creating and
> tinkering with live images with speech in mind. I've made a few useful
> apps here and there for use within the console, but remastering and
> such is a whole different area that I want to understand.
> 
> On 9/29/15, Rob <captinlogic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > mike <mmstopka28 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have built a Linux from scratch with a debian host but never got Speakup
> >>
> >> to work with it. I could not find any good instructions for enabling it in
> >>
> >> the kernel or the best way to go about building the sound system.
> > I built LFS 7.7 and have it running with both speakup and Brltty. All you
> > have to do is select the staging drivers/speakup and the sound support item
> > in the kernel configuration. Install alsa-stuff. Add your appropriate kernel
> > modules in the appropriate files; the book tells you where to add modules,
> > should you need them that aren't autoloaded by the kernel. What I then did
> > was copy my voxin libs from the host into my new system, add the right init
> > script to have the connector come up and bingo. I had speakup going.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> 
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