The trend has been to enable software speech in talking installers. I
think it is going to be a long time before you will be able to do an
install with a hardware synth in any distro. That may never work again.
On 02/07/2015 02:52 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
I hate hearing stuff like this; we have made so much progress over the
years in making Linux accessible and then these things start coming
up. When you can't even boot a basic system with current versions of
installer and kernel, then there is something seriously wrong!
I grew up on Slackware clear back in 1994 or so. I then had to login
from a different computer running a terminal emulator but that was a
start.
As for me, I like Arch Linux and there is a current talking image
available. I thought Fedora was currently accessible; no?
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 08:37:32PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I was trying to install a current version of slackware using the litetalk
synthesizer earlier. Given slackware's installer kernel is broken, I got
some remote sighted assistance and was told wait 30 seconds then key in
boot parameters and that fails persistently insofaras getting speech up.
So apparently slackware and Fedora have something in common. In both
cases an installer interested in doing an accessible installation needs to
find and download an earlier version of the operating systems that did
install accessibly and use that version to install then upgrade through
the versions to get to current versions. Moonshine on Fedora worked on
intel machines in the past and if my memory is correct, maybe slackware
11.2 ought to be able to get it done in this case. What I will do now is
take a stab at getting slackware 11.2 to speak and if that fails as time
and my download quotas permit will try other versions in the future. This
is now a low priority back burner project. I was surprised the
distribution got broken in this way.
jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Twitter: @JudeDaShiell
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