I once had an Alpha AS200 which ran headless with Speakup using the dummy video driver. As memory serves I installed by booting from floppy and then accessing the Internet for the remaining packages I needed. My Alpha was always a Debian machine. I no longer have it, though. In those days it was necessary to build and install my own kernes to get Speakup. But, I was able to drive an internal Doubletalk on that box. Very cool, actually. Janina Alex Snow writes: > Hi, > > Going to be installing Debian on an Alpha pws500au at some point in the > near future, and hope to eventually get speakup up and running on it. I > remember seeing a while back that someone had gotten this to work, but I > couldn't find if there was any special modifications that have to be > made to speakup itself. Also, what would be the best way to do the > installer? I recall from prior experience that debian was a little > dificult to get an install going over serial console, I would specify > the console= option at boot and output on my atached terminal would stop > right before the installer would start. I also want to get an i386 > install of debian done to refresh my memory about the distro, what's the > best way to do this with speakup these days? I looked in the > installer-i386 directory for debian-testing and there doesn't seem to be > the access/ directory that used to exist with speakup bootfloppies on > it. Is there somewhere else to look for a bootcd or floppies with > speakup on them? > > thanks. > > > -- > Never make any mistaeks. > -- Anonymous, in a mail discussion about to a kernel bug report > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
