I sent my suggestion before I saw this. To answer your question, if a machine has a physical video card, speakup will work very happily without a framebuffer. However, if there is no physical video card, and something needs to read the contents of a screen, then a framebuffer is the way to do that as far as I know. Do you have speakup in the kernel itself, or as modules? If as modules, then are they being loaded in something like modprobe.d, or later on in something like rc.local? If they're being loaded earlier, then the framebuffer may not be available yet. I seem to recall the framebuffer comes up rather late in dmesg. Greg On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 01:40:59PM -0500, John G Heim wrote: > Does anybody know if speakup needs a frame buffer? I'm trying to get > speakup working on a machine w/o a video card. It sort of works. I > was taking shots at what the problem was. I installed a package > named xvfb hoping to create a virtual frame buffer. That didn't work > but when I uninstalled it, I got speech until I rebooted. Then no > speech again. I am thinking removing the package, xvfb, recreated > some frame buffer thing which lasted until I rebooted. > > -- > -- > John G. Heim; jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; sip://jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
