hmmm, as I recall and this was done several years ago, I just put the patch in the kernel -- since you have to compile it anyway -- and it talked first time on reboot, but it was a while ago and I would hesitate to say exactly. Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > slackware isn't talking yet. That may change though since Patrick > Volkerding found out all the hardware synthesizers that were able to > have slackware talking have been disabled by a block the linux kernel > folks put in the kernels. Patrick is considering putting the whole > espeakup dependency stack on slackware install disks as a result of > the breakage. Patrick tried the patch supplied by John Heim here on > speakup and found that it works but if espeakup module is ever removed > it results in a kernel panic and a system crash. > Gentoo does talk, but to the best of my knowledge nobody has done a > podcast episode explaining how to use the speakup facilities to gentoo > installed in such a way that gentoo comes up talking on first reboot > after system installation is complete. If I can get that podcast > episode, I'll be installing gentoo here on at least one large hard > disk I have. > > > > -- Twitter: JudeDaShiell > > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Techswing33 wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Adding to this I'm using arch Linux in a VMware virtual environment, > > workstation11, and talking arch does not work in this setup. I'm > > suspecting it has something to do with the hdaudio driver emulating a > > 7.1 surround as opposed to the older es1371, but I have not found a > > fix. > > > > Unrelated, but if either Gentoo or slackware are talking I'd like to > > know about them. > > > > Thanks. > > Dave. > > > > > > On 4/15/15, Joseph C. Lininger <devnull-speakup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Thanks guys. As a corelary, if any assistance is needed in maintaining > >> this installation media or anything, I would be happy to help. My > >> experience is mostly with Gentoo, Slackware, and currently picking up > >> Arch Linux. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
