I apologize for being off topic and not answering your question, but this brings up a good question. What is everyone's opinion about what the most Speakup / Linux compatible Netbook is out there? I am wondering what would work best and also what distros. Thanks, Pia On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Tyler Littlefield wrote: > Hello all, > I just recently got an aces netbok, and used grml with software speech to run a debootstrap. > The grml system works great with the hardware, and i have software speech, ethernet and sound for the install. > After I get it all installed, I don't have ethernet to run off of, so the idea was to put speakup on the system and use it to install and compile the drivers. > I'm having an issue, and I was wondering if anyone has found a workaround. > > What I did was built speakup in a chroot, and pointed it to the linux headers for the kernel on the debian system, so it could build against those. I installed the modules, and have espeakup set to start at boot, with speakup_soft in the /etc/modules list. > I have Alsa installed, but am not receiving any sound; has anyone found a way to get that half of the mess working? > > > Thanks, > Tyler Littlefield > http://tds-solutions.net > Twitter: sorressean > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >