Not difficult if you have a clue at all what to do <g>. That sounds like too big a project for me. I want to get a media server going so I can do for videos what Sonos does for my music. And I have reached the point where I am seriously considering changing my machine (and my wife's who is also blind) over to GUI Linux and ditching the Windows and the exorbitant screen readers. -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Snow Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:16 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Slack 13.37 and 14.0 You could also install slackware using a serial console and then drop in whatever kernel you want to get hardware speach from Speakup...Slackware uses basicly a stock kernel.org kernel, so this isn't all that difficult. On 5/14/2013 5:10 AM, Tony Baechler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Since no one answered, I'll try my luck. I don't use Slackware and > haven't in a very long time. If you're using hardware speech, Slack > probably ships a newer kernel after 2.6.37 with broken serial support. > The only two options are to use an older kernel or software speech. I > don't think Slackware supports software speech, but Debian does. If > you're running 32-bit, you might run into problems with big drives > regardless of the kernel. I would recommend installing 64-bit Debian > Squeeze if your system can run 64-bit and upgrade to Wheezy from there. > That still lets you use the older kernel with hardware speech while > giving you the newer packages. If you can use software speech, of > course just installing Debian Wheezy directly is the better option. > I've ran both Debian Squeeze with the 2.6.32 kernel and Wheezy with > the 3.2 kernel and several 3 TB drives in a RAID array with no > problems. As I'm sure you know, you probably don't want to use a 3 TB > drive for boot. I have a separate 1 TB RAID array for my boot drive and I've had no problems. > > In reading your message again, I have a question. What happens with > Debian if you use the standard Speakup keys to change your rate and pitch? > I use a DECtalk Express here and I've never had that problem. In > fact, I worked on fixing the driver and William incorporated my fixes > with his own into the official Speakup module, so you should have a > very good experience. Someone else has reported random rate and pitch > drops, but he's using a DECtalk USB. I'm assuming you tried either > the speakupconf script in the speakup-tools package or added lines to > /etc/rc.local to set your rate and pitch, right? If the standard > Speakup keys aren't working, you might have a keyboard issue or there > might be a bug in D-I. Did you actually get Debian installed or is > the problem you're having with the install CD? > > On 5/13/2013 10:06 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote: >> New to this list and hoping you all can help with this problem. I am >> having issues with the last two versions of Slackware and getting >> Speakup at install time. I have used Slackware back to version 7.0 >> with no issues. >> >> For some reason, I can't get Speakup to load on either of these >> releases. Using DEC Talk Express. Tried speakup.s, huge.s and >> hugesmp.s since the latter two appear to have Speakup as well. >> >> I desperately need to get to a version that supports 3TB hard drives. >> Considered switching to Debian, but ran into a Speakup issue there >> too. Seems to be stuck at a default rate, and it won't let me change >> it for session or otherwise. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRkf+AAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0y3mkP/jOlQMS8S1fYURTGZEaNDeqr > 1F81Q8rC3f5lNHNItK10z4ix4PpQvQmVnZKmi6LjoV7GScYPzF3cqyHGbSmXHE3p > 4igWGCTfWNUTqe4Ucfpc1WX+xz2PY+9o6lWtDh3u9HlyrfHzwJva2KJZVk4HxXzJ > dPXpTOIbBBS23XtpmocArPeIiT3Is6KVs5YUeKXkfs1c5Hqe0vg35X7kFuDxOX0U > 1J3tqInPJsd/AK6Q7b8ergji2bGYon7fPRQQGh2u4Ozwq74M1Eo8Y/56sWk/DbHG > l1u20E1anQp/ZgXJgc6PCjhLvevfA1UjOrrsW+VJbU6Op2xdQdA93RgBKOMMJyCk > 5eBjZYcnZJN2YdH9KfUDY5kFClZ+fdw24IudkLSbqPz5S9oAc6c3yLNc2+ibYrPr > it7CQ4DN1a2dqbWnummi84FTfuJ49cD3hvj2if0CnVKmwOLaE1d6xBsgGqRH0Wyf > sr8wCjomE7oarZr3IvIWlx8AAlT/HDgISBUZYcH2NTJWSv0YlSZ1LS1alLBbLyIk > 5568ZwxAue0BV4L6w3nAdlE6a8y1iHLTGQ0Y+NdnSVhiCVTT5PHYpNSkjgvXKkts > PDZQEH/cFiTFW5WZql9GGqnKD1QgiIMutG3BlcjGXraqVDo129lX8+xrqH0DuQMI > A6yc1+5LqKWOYYaYjC1o > =T8TQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > 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
