There's definitely interest. I'd even learn the process for doing that for the sole purpose of contributing. Thanks for looking into it, William. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of William Hubbs Sent: March 14, 2009 10:29 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I would like to get this done on gentoo, I just haven't attempted to coordinate it with release engineering yet. My plan is for our latest version of speakup and espeakup to go stable, then I will work with release engineering to get it put onto our official cds. I'm not sure how to build a minimal cd myself, but if there is interest, I can ask release engineering about how that would be done for testing. On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:10:59PM -0400, James Homuth wrote: > Careful. Yall are making me consider playing with Arch Linux if only > because of its Gentoo-like qualities, minus compiling. This is, IMHO, > exactly the kind of CD that particular distro needs. Would anyone mind > if I forward this thread to gentoo's accessibility project? > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield > Sent: March 14, 2009 10:03 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2! > > the .1 doesn't apply, I"m changing that so that the file is correct. > > > Thanks, > Tyler Littlefield > Web: tysdomain.com > email: tyler at tysdomain.com > My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon at cox.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:57 PM > Subject: Speakup-enabled ArchLinux install CD, version 2! > > > >I am proud to announce the second release of a modified ArchLinux > >install CD that includes Speakup. > > It is mostly equivalent to the official "ftp CD", but the system > >should start speaking as soon as you boot with it. > > Speech is provided via the sound card, using the eSpeak software > >synthesizer. > > This CD is only available for the i686 platform; x86-64 is not supported. > > There are two versions: an Isolinux version and a Grub version. > > One may obtain ".iso" images via HTTP. > > > > Grub: > > Download URL: > > http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso > > MD5 sum: 932d49d5093e50d8c5fb14527afd17fa > > > > Isolinux: > > Download URL: > > http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686-isolinux.iso.1 > > MD5 sum: 28fa806a745e26424596259a71fc9d64 > > > > Thanks to Tyler Littlefield for hosting these files. > > > > The following list of steps is a brief guide to installing ArchLinux > > using this CD. > > If anyone has trouble with it, send me a private email. > > The instructions assume that your root partition will be mounted on /mnt. > > > > 0. When booting, Grub provides a very long timeout. Press enter > > once the drive stops spinning. > > > > 1. Use the installer on the CD, as per the beginner's guide. > > 2. Install the alsa-utils and espeak packages: > > pacman --root=/mnt -S alsa-utils espeak 3. Install the speakup and > > espeakup packages. > > These are not yet available in the community repository. > > There are two ways to install them, depending on how much you trust me. > > > > Alternative 1: Use the binary packages from my website. I promise > > that the speakup package will always match the kernel version > > available from the official ArchLinux repositories. > > Append the following two lines to /etc/pacman.conf and > > /mnt/etc/pacman.conf: > > [blind] > > Server = {http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/blind/i686} > > Install the packages from my custom repository: > > pacman --root=/mnt -Sy speakup espeakup > > > > Alternative 2: Build the packages from source, using the PKGBUILDs > > available from the Arch User Repository. For convenience, the URLs > > are: > > {http://aur.archlinux.org/download/speakup/speakup.tar.gz} > > {http://aur.archlinux.org/download/espeakup/espeakup.tar.gz} > > If I were going to choose this option, I would probably chroot into > > the newly installed ArchLinux system in order to build the packages. > > > > 4. Customize /mnt/etc/rc.conf: > > Add speakup and speakup_soft to the MODULES array. Add alsa and > > espeakup to the DAEMONS array. > > > > 5. You also need to save the state of the sound card, so that it > > will be retrieved on reboot. > > Execute the command "alsactl store" and copy the file > > /etc/asound.state to /mnt/etc/asound.state. > > Alternatively, alsactl -f /mnt/etc/asound.state store > > > > 6. When you boot the system from the hard disk, it should start speaking. > > > > The ArchLinux developers build their CD images using a set of shell > > scripts and configuration files named archiso. I added a > > configuration to archiso that allows me to build accessible CDs. > > If someone wants to master customized images containing Speakup, he > > should do the following. > > > > Grab sources using git: > > git clone http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/archiso.git > > git checkout --track -b talkinginst origin/talkinginst All of my > > work is done on the "talkinginst" branch. The master branch mirrors > > the master branch from git://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git > > Now you have a copy in archiso/. Install the scripts contained in > > archiso/archiso. > > > > In order to create the image, pacman needs to be able to find the > > speakup and espeakup packages. > > Add my custom [blind] package repository to /etc/pacman.conf on the > > host system, as described in the instructions for installing from CD. > > Change to the archiso/configs/talkinginst directory, and type "make > > ftp-iso". > > Alternatively, "make BOOTLOADER=syslinux ftp-iso"" yields an image > > having Isolinux as its bootloader. > > There are several more targets for "make". For instance, ftp-usb > > produces an image suitable for a flash drive. > > > > Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with ArchLinux. > > I don't even have Trusted User status in the community. > > This CD image is not an official release. It is not endorsed by > > anyone other than myself. It is provided solely for the convenience > > of its creator > > and other blind users. It comes with absolutely no warranty. > > > > With kind regards, > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead williamh at gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm8aAAACgkQblQW9DDEZTi3xgCguyh+7WSUJ0jMiUovvu4hRbD+ y7kAmwbij9PPcUOWIplaRL2NZ7RoJz7W =y6f3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
