The only reason they would let me do speakup is because it is in the staging tree, nothing outside of yum is allowed --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 7:01 PM To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8 I'd check into something like Fenrir. Might do what you want, unless you need that low level access for some reason. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:40:59 -0700 Subject: RE: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8 > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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