-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You've received several alternative answers to your original questions, but I'll provide some answers below to the original questions, in case they would still be of use. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:33:57AM -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > First, is there some way to disable speaking > by default during boot, and only enable it if the user asks for it? Yes. Provide speakup.quiet=1 on the kernel command line (I.E. in the boot loader config), and speakup will stay quiet, until the user does something (I.E. reviews the screen, starts typing, or whatever). > The first sound Vinux normally makes is the login window chime. I > think it will confuse some users and possibly annoy others if they > wind up listening to the boot messages, but I want the option to > listen. As has already been pointed out, this would only be an issue for those using hardware speech. > Second, do you know what it takes to maintain the kernel > packages? I'm also a novice debian packager. > I use kernel-package myself for building custom kernels in debian. aptitude show kernel-package should give you the gory details. > Finally, I've been asked to make some changes in default speakup > settings (turn cursor tracking off, and set punctuation to some). Is > the recommended way with speakupconf? If you'll be using only one synth, like software speech, then I don't see a problem with that. If however people expect to be able to use any supported hardware synth at boot, then using speakupconf means having a separate directory under /etc/speakup for each supported synth. I think a far easier way would be to simply put echo 3 >/sys/accessibility/speakup/punc_level in a boot script somewhere, assuming that 3 is the correct value for some. I don't know of any way to adjust cursor tracking through /sys/accessibility/speakup, this can only be done with numpad+asterisk as far as I know, though I'd love to be corrected on that one. As to the comments wondering why you'd ever want to adjust cursor tracking, there are some situations when I do. If I boot up, and want to use lynx, or mplayer right after login, I'll turn cursor tracking off. If I want to use tin, I'll set it to highlight tracking. What ever the case, 90% of the time, I will change the state of cursor tracking at some point during my first login session before I log back out. So, while being able to set the state of cursor tracking at boot wouldn't be urgent for me, it would be a nice feature to have, just my $0.01 worth. Hth. 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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt9mnoACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyC0UgCfdeRKlkOq7d/TLUw0PjP/vavj Of0AoJx5AeWlyIVQERSJXMWoVq6F6Zf9 =qr1M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
