Hey, if htis works, it'd be interesting to see the Gentoo Live CD built in much the same way. Thanks, Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:04 PM Subject: speakup in gentoo, and speakup coming back to SystemRescueCD > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > I'm working with Francois to bring speakup back into current versions > of SystemRescueCD. Due to speakup's bleeding edge status now, Francois > wants to build speakup outside the kernel, so as to not effect those > who don't need to use speakup. What we've decided on doing is to > accept boot parameters as if speakup was in the kernel, and load > required modules based on the boot parameters given, > (I.E. speakup.synth=bns at the isolinux boot prompt would modprobe the > speakup_bns.ko module with the start=1 flag from within the initrd > image). The advantage to this approach is that speakup will not be in > the kernel at all, you will still get speech during the initrd stage, > before the cd itself starts loading up, and invoking speakup via boot > parameters now means a seamless switch-over should speakup again be > built into the kernel one day. > > Sysresccd is built on a gentoo system, and Francois will be doing the > building. I assume he'll provide me a beta iso to test, before making > the official release. I am assuming he's better off emerging speakup > from gentoo, instead of from git? If this is correct, then I plan to > provide him with a link to William's message on this: > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2008-April/046047.html > > . If something has changed regarding gentoo and speakup since that > message, then could someone using gentoo please kindly describe any > changes since that message, in such a way so as to allow someone who > is not himself a speakup user to emerge and build speakup > successfully? If he's better off using git instead of the gentoo > repos, I'll let him know to do that instead. Thanks for any help in > advance. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIcoTe7s9z/XlyUyARAi/BAKCgSQNjPJyuntaC8+zawEfrQXn8FQCfWNU3 > QSgGe/F3zu1lGOh8736m0EA= > =w7eY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
