Hi Janina! Excellent. Thanks for that very useful info. I'll try it once I get a hardware issue fixed on that box. I decided to shut down the box completely, only to discover the power button doesn't work. Opened the case, and there appears to be a physical problem with the button; it can't hit the switch... The box had been moved a number of times... Yikes! Hope we will have compiled Speakup for the new version. The complete loss of pre-login support is a big minus... Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications! Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator! A+, CCNA, Network+! Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: Re: RedHat 9 and Speakup, almost... > Hi, Darrell: > > Since you installed 2.4.20-18.9spk2, you're now using the new, > pre-release, version of what will eventually be called Speakup 2.0. > That's the meaning of "spk2" at the end of that filename. In this > version of Speakup, the synthesizer drivers are modularized. Of course, > you could compile them into the kernel, but that's not how they're used > in the rpm you installed. > > So, under your current circumstances, you will not have speech during > the boot or login process. Once in, however, you can launch Speakup as > follows: > > > setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none > modprobe speakup_$1 > > > Since that's probably too much to type reliably without spoken feedback, > I've placed this (plus one more command) in a script file in my > /usr/local/sbin. In my .bash_profile I create an alias to it. > > My script is called startspeakup.sh, and my alias is ss. I define it > asfollows: > > alias ss="/usr/local/sbin/startspeakup.sh $1" > > > The '$1' allowsme to type any Speakup keyword. For example, using the > Litetalk I type: > > ss ltlk > > and Speakup comes up chattering as always. > > Of course, you have to be sure to set permissions appropriately--or to > call this as root. > > PS: My additional command is based on the fact that I store Speakup > related settings for different synthesizers under /etc/speakup. So, the > third line of my script says: > > > cp -r /etc/speakup/`cat /proc/speakup/synth_name`/* /proc/speakup > > whereby I get the speed and punctuation settings I want by default, etc. > > Eventually, there will be other ways, but this is the only way I know > right nowPPS: I have not succeeded placing these calls in my > /etc/rc.local. > > > > Darrell Shandrow writes: > > From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at azboss.net> > > > > Hi all, > > > > OK. So I now have one of my systems upgraded from Red Hat 8 to Red Hat 9. > > I accomplished that using the text telnet method described previously. > > > > I have also installed the following two Speakup specific RPMs from > > ftp.linux-speakup.org: > > kbd-1.08-4spk.i386.rpm > > kernel-2.4.20-18.9spk2.i686.rpm > > > > While I can successfully ssh into my system, after having to temporarily > > disable iptables, Speakup does not speak despite the following > > /boot/grub/grub.conf contents: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > > # > > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > > # root (hd0,0) > > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 > > # initrd /initrd-version.img > > #boot=/dev/hda > > default=0 > > timeout=10 > > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.9spk2) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9spk2 ro root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=acntpc > > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.9spk2.img > > # title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) > > # root (hd0,0) > > # kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=acntpc > > # initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > > > > What am I missing here? Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
