Speakup on the newest Gentoo minimal cd doesn't works with any boot parameters

[Jude DaShiell]

You probably picked one of the most complex distributions to install for 
accessibility.  External DVD drives are not that expensive any longer. 
Aside from that, you need to find out all of the addresses for all of 
your sound cards on that mac.  There's a /proc subdirectory in Linux for 
this and maybe on the mac too.  The Linux kernel has provisions by means 
of boot parameters for selecting your sound card but you'll need its 
address.  Wait, have you tried lsusb -v|less yet?  If you have usb 
speakers plugged in on talkingarch instance you can get useful 
information from that command I think.
The problem you're going to have with gentoo will be in kernel building 
since speakup isn't installed in the kernel.  I got that far on 
installation a couple times but got no further.  You may have additional 
problems after kernel building I know nothing about since I never got 
past that step.  The other problem with gentoo is handbook on internet 
documentation is several years out of date so if there are easier ways 
to get an accessible install of gentoo install they don't appear in that 
handbook.  Good luck, you're going to need it.

On Sun, 18 Dec 2016, Charaya wrote:

> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 06:05:13
> From: Charaya <charaya at t-online.de>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
> Subject: Speakup on the newest Gentoo minimal cd doesn't works with any boot
>     parameters
> 
> Hello Speakup users,
> I want to instal Gentoo with my Mac, but I need a screenreader to install it. I didn't get brltty working and speakup isn't working to. I tried all speakup boot parameters (speakup.synth=synth) I don't know what to do now.
> I had talking arch live cd on a disk but my dvd device isn't working anymore so I have the gentoo minimal cd on my stick because dd can't write big files on any stick here. But there on talking arch I had to select the right soundcart - it was not the first avaylable - maybe I have to select the right soundcart on gentoo too? But how?
> Does anibody  has got an idea?
> Best regards,
> charaya
>
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