Hi, while the cd works perfectly, the repository you gave for packages for espeakup and speakup doesn't work, from the web browser or the arch system. The web browser gives a server not found message, and the package system appeared to hang when I issued pacman -Sy with the blind repo active. Also, did you intend for there to be curly brackets around the http link for the repo? thanks, Arthur. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:57 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 >
