The grml developers are trying to streamline things. I don't want to speak for them but after discussing things with them on the grml list, I got the impression that they'd rather do a few things really well rather than try to do everything and end up doing nothing really well. From: "Marcel Oats" <moats@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:35 PM Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases? > Thanks folks, I'll try modprobe speakup_soft. > Also, lets hope grml-live works reliably now. > > Marcel > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:48 PM > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases? > >> >> Speakup is included however the accessability boot options are gone. >> Boot the cd, wait for the beeps from the speaker, hit q to exit the quick >> config screen then key in >> modprobe speakup_soft >> espeakup >> >> You should get speech. >> Options to load into ram still exist on the cheatsheet as far as I can >> tell and you can still do >> <tab> ssh=password >> to get an ssh server running on the box. >> >> Regards, kerry. >> >> On 12/01/2012 10:11 AM, Marcel Oats wrote: >>> Hi, I am fairly sure this has been answered before, so excuse me. I >>> just downloaded grml2011.12 (both 64 and 32bit versions) and noticed >>> that their "large" distribution (around 700mb of iso) is no longer >>> available. They do not mention speakup support in their list of boot >>> options. >>> I am wanting to use this as you can load the squashfs into ram and have >>> it run from there; I usually remaster it so as additional programmes >>> that I have included are available, and we have software speech, instead >>> of having to rely on a hardware synth. >>> I might have to look for another distro, and hope that it is possible to >>> load the squashfs filesystem into ram as well. >>> >>> Useful to do such things as running Terabyte's Image for Linux and >>> create BD backups is an example of the kinds of uses I have. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Marcel >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > >