Ok, thanks for the feedback. So, now I've got a vote not to change the default settings, which I guess cancels the one vote to change them. To date, Vinux is primarily a platform that talks, and comes with speakup using espeak by default, so I guess there's not much advantage to a custom kernel (whew!). I have run Ubuntu Lucid Alpha without gdm installed so that you boot into a console read by speakup. I do like that mode. However, I think the "standard" Vinux ISO will have gdm, but a "CLI" version could be built without it. The problem with building a Debian package for each new kernel Ubuntu ships is that users will find that speakup stops talking after random upgrades. I'm tempted instead to detect that soft_synth isn't loading properly, and then to compile a new speakup during boot. Thanks for the rapid feedback. Bill On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM, tony seth <lp800 at samobile.net> wrote: > Hi there: ?I can only really answer one of yer questions, but if you're > using software speech for Speakup, I don't think you'll have to worry about > rambling kernel messages, as software speech takes long enough that you > won't hear anything until you actually go to a console and hit enter or > something. ?I didn't get rambling kernel messages until I changed the > modules file to load the doubletalk and now I get everything, which I like. > ?Actually I remember the first time I encountered Speakup on the Vinux 2.0 > cd I liked knowing that when Orca would die that I could just jump into a > console and software speech would just work, or I could switch over to the > doubletalk if I wanted to. > Anyway, hope that helps a little, sorry for the rambling message... > Cheereo! > > -- > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. ?Visit > www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
