First of all, there are still 3 Speakup boot disks. One for IDE, and two different types of SCSI (not sure of the difference). I don't know for sure, but I'm told you can also boot any kernel (including the Speakup ones) right from the CDROM - just type speakup.i/speakup1.s/speakup2.s at the boot prompt. Saqib ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tommy Moore" <tmoore@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Re: Good news > Actually from what I've seen they've removed the Speakup kernels from the > slackware-current distribution. Not sure if this is asking too much but > having speakup in the default installation kernel would be really nice > sice if people don't need it they won't be using it and then the cds will > talk from the start instead of having to make boot floppies. > > Tommy > > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Having just finished my exams yesterday, I've been talking to Patrick > > Volkerding (aka Mr Slackware). He's very interested in accessibility. As you > > may know he already has Speakup boot-disks in the original distribution. > > > > I asked him if he would consider adding Emacspeak, and there and then, he > > did it! He asked if you needed other software to use different devices, and > > I told him you needed Emacspeak-SS for other synths. He added this too! And > > then, he added BrlTTY as well, and is considering adding Flite and NFBTrans > > (though maybe not in 8.1). > > > > So all in all, with Redhat having Emacspeak, Debian coming with > > Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/Brltty, and Slackware coming with all of > > Speakup/Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/BrlTTY and offering to compile the Doubletalk > > PC driver into the default kernel, Linux and console accessibility really > > does look good (IMHO). > > > > Just thought I'd let you guys know this, and look forward to Slackware 8.1 > > being released. > > > > Saqib > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
