Hi Cheryl On Wed, Apr 23, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hi all. > > I posted to macvoiceover about my success in getting a dual boot with a ppc > mac mini with brltty, though with an unofficial cd since the necessary > changes in brltty haven't made it into the official testing images yet. I > got some inquiries back, some asking about speakup. I haven't tried using > speakup in ppc yet, though I did try using espeak, which installs but > doesn't speak and gives an error about bad data; I read that it could be > compiled to get rid of the error but then still didn't speak. There actually > is a version of espeak that works on the macosx end, though it isn't > incorporated to work with voiceover at this point. at any rate, can anybody > tell me whether speakup works on a ppc installation, specifically debian but > others also if applicable, and if there's any iso installation media at > present for ppc that has speakup? There is no installation support for sure. Long ago and far away, maybe during the 2.4 days, a few of us were playing with trying to get ppc to work. I don't even remember what we came up with. I haven't touched a ppc box in many years now. Well I should say there is one exception, my snom. And if we ever get custom firmware built for the snom we may need speakup. Now that you have a debian install on your ppc you should have a go at building a speakup kernel. That is if you aren't worried about getting your hands dirty. If you have any trouble along the way just speakup. --Frank
