My question exactly. One of the first things I heard about Linux is that it is flexible, and the second that access speech and otherwise was or could be built in. Why is it , especially with the distributors so willing to have all their products accessible will speakup not work with them? On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Sean McMahon wrote: > How come some distrobutions work and not others? Speakup is after just a kernel > flavor. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 8:05 AM > Subject: Re: Need to install speakup on Suse 9.3 > > >> I'm working for Novell and they want me using Suse 9.3 and in a few days v10. >> >> SSH might be an alternative though but I'll probably have to bring my laptop > into work every day. I basically want to use yast. I have a 40 cell Braille > display and my Braille reading is very out of practise and thus very slow. I > have to be able to use yast. unfortunately the applications and settings they > use keep changing and I need to be able to install them as quick and as easilly > as possible. >> >> >> -----Original message----- >> From: Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net >> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:37:46 +0100 >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> Subject: Re: Need to install speakup on Suse 9.3 >> >>> I don't follow your logic, Darragh. Are you expecting that Speakup will >>> somehow do for you what Brltty has been unable to do? If so, I would >>> hope you have a sound basis for such an expectation. >>> >>> The best I can tell you about Speakup on Suse is what I have previously >>> reported. To my knowledge, no one has succeededwith that. I know several >>> have tried, including me. The closest I got was a speaking kernel panic. >>> >>> Now, you maty get further, but that takes me back to the original >>> question. Are you after some development work? Or do you just need to >>> perform some task. If the latter,grab a Speakup enabled Fedora, Debian, >>> or whatever, and ssh to that Suse box. I suspect you're going to find >>> that yast will still not work--for the same reason it isn't working with >>> sbl. Of course, I could be very wrong. >>> >>> Darragh writes: >>>> Hello, >>>> I know I wrote about this a while ago but I'm now using Suse 9.3 as my > main operating system so I'm in a better position to act on peoples suggestions. > I really need to get speakup installed and I'm hoping someone here can tell me > how possible this will be. I'm using brltty at the moment but it doesn't work > with the text based version of yast so I'm running into a dead end as far as > that's concerned. >>>> >>>> Any help greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> >>>> Darragh >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Speakup mailing list >>>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 >>> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com >>> Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to > http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. >>> >>> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) >>> janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
