What I do is to start up with the usb stick/cd and then simply press control-alt-f1 to get to a console with speakup. On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Don Raikes wrote: > I am certainly open to looking at both ubuntu and debian as the base systems. > > The problem with ubuntu and vinux is that the latest versions of ubuntu starting with precise utilize the unity desktop and that is a real accessibility nightmare. I know there is a way to use the gnome-classic desktop but that seems a bit flaky to me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Baechler [mailto:tony at baechler.net] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:00 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: creating a speakup cli cd > > Before you do that, look at Vinux. It's already based on Ubuntu and includes Speakup, but it isn't specifically command line. It also includes Gnome and Orca. I didn't recommend it to you previously because it seemed to crash a lot in my tests, but that was quite a while ago. Even if you go ahead and build your own CD from scratch, Vinux has done a lot of the basic steps for you. To me, it doesn't make much sense to reinvent the wheel. I personally would rather see efforts focused on the Debian live CD since the kernel already has Speakup included and it's just a matter of starting software speech at boot. I did some initial experiments in this regard and it looked like it wouldn't take more than a few hours, but I admit that I don't know anything about how the boot loader works. There are already packages to create a plain vanilla Debian live CD on your own system, so it should just be a matter of adding the espeakup, espeak and speakup-tools packages and making sur! > e the sta > rtup scripts work. I might give this another go in a couple of weeks if no one beats me to it. > > On 2/5/2013 10:55 AM, Don Raikes wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am starting work on a project to make a Speakup-enabled livecd that will boot to the console. >> >> >> >> The cd will be based on ubuntu precise and will include Speakup, espeakup and brltty for accessibility. >> >> Are there special parameters I need to pass to the kernel at boot to activate Speakup at start? >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Have a good day, > Tony Baechler > tony at baechler.net > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, > and is believed to be clean. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > >
