-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Deedra Waters - Gentoo accessibility and amd64 - dmwaters at gentoo.org Gentoo linux: http://www.gentoo.org - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:35:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Deedra Waters <dmwaters@xxxxxxxxxx> To: covici at ccs.covici.com, Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: gentoo dropping speakup support - --[PinePGP]--------------------------------------------------[begin]-- On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, John covici wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:24:31 -0400 > From: John covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Subject: gentoo dropping speakup support > > As you said in your comment this will be a great step backwards -- I > was able to install gentoo on a laptop without assistance because of > speakup being built in and now that ubuntu has dropped it, this would > be no good. How about just saying its not selectable for spark and > seeing if we can get it to work for 2.6.22 elsewhere which I am sure > Kirk is working on? It's not just sparc, it's just not building in general, from what i gather from daniel drake and kirk it's flat out broken in .22. > > The user space idea may be something worth considering as we no longer > get the boot messages we used to get, however this would be a much > bigger change. Kirk is working on a git patch set which may help, but > its broke right now. > > > on Sunday 06/17/2007 William Hubbs(williamh at gentoo.org) wrote > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > All, > > > > because of this bug [1], gentoo linux will be dropping support for speakup in its official kernels starting at 2.6.22. > > > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177794 > > > > Is there any possibility at all that speakup could be moved into user space as the bug suggests? I feel that if we can go into user space this will b a better approach. > > > > Thanks, > > > > - -- > > William Hubbs > > gentoo accessibility team lead > > williamh at gentoo.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFGdZLWblQW9DDEZTgRAsCOAJoD/roDmHTKu7ji8qTXZ2eoX47T1ACeIivJ > > j/qhb9Z6KNpfitEvr7Onrug= > > =mpb2 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- Deedra Waters - Gentoo accessibility and amd64 - dmwaters at gentoo.org Gentoo linux: http://www.gentoo.org - --[PinePGP]----------------------------------------------------------- gpg: Signature made Sun Jun 17 19:35:00 2007 CDT using DSA key ID E4C635CF gpg: Good signature from "Deedra Waters <dmwaters at gentoo.org>" gpg: aka "Deedra Waters <dmwaters at linuxpowered.com>" gpg: aka "Deedra Waters <deedra at dmwaters.us>" gpg: aka "Deedra Waters <dmwaters at freenode.net>" gpg: aka "Deedra Waters <dmwaters at osuosl.org>" - --[PinePGP]----------------------------------------------------[end]-- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGddXVU5AGPOTGNc8RAlZ0AJ9hURKdKD/p8Q0m/WC6HAxgFvyD9QCcDOYe Lspwja1F/rLiUJHUJ8JL3hs= =LyEG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
