Hello, How long does that boot prompt stay onscreen for those who don't have pc speakers on their motherboards, a lot of them these days don't come with one, or who are doing it in a virtual machine? Thanks. Dave. On 12/10/13, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:01:19PM -0500, Kyle wrote: >> As I recall, espeakup is on the install CD, but it doesn't run >> automatically. If I remember correctly, I was able to wait about a >> minute to be sure the system was fully up and running and then run >> >> espeakup >> >> to get it talking. I don't recall needing to emerge anything. Hope this >> helps. > > actually it is even easier. > > When you hear the beep that lets you know you are at the boot prompt, > you should be able to type: > > gentoo speakup.synth=soft > > and it should start talking. > > Let me know if this doesn't work. > > William > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
