The original discussion was Slackware's use of unmodified kernel sources in their distribution. It then went to the issue of Speakup not being in the regular kernel source, and thus Slackware's need to provide patched speakup kernels, for its distribution's install kernels. Yes, if you are compiling a new kernel, you can add anything you want. However, if you are installing a new distribution, you get what they give you, or you go through the hassles of obtaining specialized bootdisks. It would simplify things greatly, if Speakup was included in the master kernel.org source tree, as just another driver. I said that I thought, in order for this to happen, speakup needed the ability to start in a dormant, or unloaded state by default, and therefore be activatable by a boot paramater of "speakup=on,speakup_synth=dectlk". I then posited, that if such a parameter existed, it should be made possible, during a kernel compile, to change that defaulting to off behavior, such that a "speakup=on" would not be necessary, if the person compiling the kernel *wanted* speakup to be on all of the time, unless they did the converse of the above, and specified a "speakup=off" boot parameter (such as might be necessary, if another family member was booting the system, and didn't want speech). Yes, this latter is a separate issue, but it entered the discussion as explained, and is thus a part of it, so long as anyone cares to talk to me about it.:) Luke On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Luke, > > > We're talking about the official distribution, not your own > > patched copy of the official distribution of the kernel. > > What's the difference? Presumably if speakup was added to the > official, it would do what I am looking at: it adds a new > option in console drivers for speakup, and allows you to > select synthesizers. Why should it be any different if it was > in the official source? > > Are you talking about a kernel parameter to tell it to use > speakup or not? If so, I think that is a separate issue. > This is the build of the kernel. > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
