I always use gmrl2hd and it works good for me... I have a acer netbook ad another little one that I cannot think of the brand of. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:27 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases? They do have a gRML2hd, but I've never managed to get that working, so good luck. I always just used debootstrap and installed Debian, but that's kind of a pain. On 1/20/2012 7:14 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > I actually downloaded this to take a look. I waited for the jingle and > typed > > modprobe speakup_soft > followed by > espeakup > > and after I pressed enter it did eventually come up speaking, but it had an error saying that it could not access a certain source, but I just pressed return and it started working, review keys etc. > > Now I'm just looking for how to install it on the hard drive partition. In the FAQ of GRML, it looks as though it is not obvious. > > Regards > Justin Harford > On 20-01-2012, at 16:14, Glenn wrote: > >> Hi Kerry, >> I tried these, as they sound like the same as Orca, but nothing came out >> when navigating with those keys. >> It must be that I did all on the same line to call up espeak. >> Glenn >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kerry Hoath"<kerry at gotss.net> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."<speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:07 AM >> Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases? >> >> >> >> obviously modprobe speakup_soft >> and >> espeakup >> are 2 separate commands you run after hitting q to exit the grml >> quickstart wizard. >> >> Once speech is loaded you can use the speakup review commands to get >> around the screen. to get keyboard echo you echo 1 >>> /sys/accessibility/speakup/key_echo or similar it is in there somewhere. >> to move by lines use capslock u i o, words are j k l and characters m , >> and . >> >> capslock and the numbers do volume, pitch and speed. >> There is a help key can't remember what it is but there is documentation >> on linux-speakup.org somewhere with all the key bindings. >> >> Regards, Kerry. >> >> On 20/01/2012 12:41 PM, Glenn wrote: >>> Kerry, >>> I downloaded the 32 bit version of GRML, and used the USB installer and >>> put >>> it onto my 4GB thumbdrive. >>> I ran: >>> modprobe speakup_soft espeakup >>> And I got speech, but it does not echo my typing, nor can I find a way of >>> reviewing what is on the screen. >>> I am familiar with Orca, in Ubuntu, but this has me stumped. >>> This is on an Asus ePc which runs XP okay, I don't remember if I upgraded >>> the RAM to 1GB or 2GB, but either way, it should be enough. >>> How do I control the speech better? >>> Thanks >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Kerry Hoath"<kerry at gotss.net> >>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."<speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:48 PM >>> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Take care, Ty Web: http://tds-solutions.net The Aspen project: a light-weight barebones mud engine http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud Sent from my toaster. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
