>From what I understand from the handbook, Gentoo's kernels include support for just about every possible type of hardware, and Gentoo runs a hardware detection process as the CD boots up. However, that still might not detect and activate the sound card in time for it to do Speakup any good. Jayson. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:49 PM Subject: Re: Installing speakup with software speech > Hi > Do you mean installing FC2 with software speech? If so, right now > you can't. I'm not sure how feasible this would be, either. I don't see > much problem getting things like speech dispatcher and flite onto the CD, > but I'm not sure how early FC2 detects the soundcard. I know it detects > the monitor and video card right at the beginning (figures, right?) but > I'm not sure where sound is activated. I've been thinking about this > lately myself, as it sure would help people with no serial ports. FC2 may > be the only distro it is feasible with at all, since distros like > slackware don't even include sound modules on their installation > disks--not sure about debian or gentoo, though. > HTH > P.S. That isn't speakup 1.5 in FC2--it's a fairly new CVS speakup. I think > the only distro to still include speakup 1.5 is slackware. > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Sina Bahram wrote: > > SB> Hi guys, > SB> > SB> Is it possible to do the whole deal, from start to finish using software > SB> speech? So where I specify the synth, can I specify a software synth and do > SB> the install of Fedora 2? Then boot up with Speakup 1.5, then run a checkout > SB> script to get the latest speakup? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
