Yes we are prepared to rebuild the kernel but if the code is excluded from the staging tree then it's going to be a problem I have enquired into the possibilities of using a different distro, and I am not going to say it will not happen, but the chance is extremely slim at this point. Unless I can prove that we can't get speakup to run on RHEL unfortunately that is not an option. --David -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 5:27 PM To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8 The Kernel is pretty much a black box from my perspective, but as I understand it, Speakup is a Kernel module, each distro is free to decide which kernel modules to include in their default kernel, and that due to REL being an extremely conservative distro, they exclude pretty much everything in the staging tree, which includes Speakup. I could be wrong, but I suspect that in order to use speakup on a REL system, one would have to compile speakup and any other part of the accessibility stack that directly relies on it, if not recompile the whole kernel. If switching to a different distro that does include speakup in its default kernel isn't an option, one might have better luck getting a userland screen reader like Fenrir up and running instead. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list