does speak up come with a software speech oppsion? also what package does gento use? rpm or .deb? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Pirika" <apirika@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Linux from Scratch > Hi, just a note, I recently installed Gentoo, and noted that even though > the latest kernel (gentoo-sources 2.6.12r9) was last modified a few days > ago, it doesn't seem to have the latest speakup from cvs, with the new > highlight tracking. > I'm currently contacting the gentoo-accessibility team to see if this can > be fixed. > btw, if you would like to have braille access to gentoo, no prob. During > install, just use gentoo-nofb as a boot parameter on the cd, and have a > brltty binary at hand, as the current LiveCD doesn't have it. I'm working > on this with the accessibility team, though. > then after installation, just "emerge brltty", and you'll have the latest > stable (3.6.1) version. > > thanks, > Arthur. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garry Turkington" <garry.turkington at acm.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:38 AM > Subject: Re: Linux from Scratch > > >> Hi, >> >> I've built Gentoo several times which is a from-source distribution. >> It's nice because you get all the benefits of a fully build-it-yourself >> system but things like the Gentoo install media and handbook remove the >> more gratuitous difficulties. >> >> I personally learned a lot from the experience and would recommend it to >> anyone who wants to get a better understanding of just how a Linux >> distribution works 'under the hood'. But since you have to do things >> like write your own grub.conf, fstab files and so on it's not for the >> faint of heart. >> >> Gentoo nicely comes with Speakup pre-patched and I've had the latest >> 2.6.12-gentoor6 kernel speaking on an AMd64 system. >> >> Regards, >> Garry >> >> -- >> Garry Turkington >> garry.turkington at gmail.com >> >> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, ace wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Has anyone here ever done a Linux from Scratch installation? >>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org >>> If so, I would like to hear some feedback concerning this. I wish to >>> try it but would like the opinions of other people. Is it easy to patch >>> Speakup into such an installation? I am guessing it is the same since >>> one would be required to compile the kernel. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Robby >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.1/64 - Release Date: 4/08/2005 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 8/19/2005 > >
