Debian speakup-modified installation?

[Willem van der Walt]

Hello,
Once the laptop was running, I ssh-ed intoo it from my desktop where I 
have speech.
I looked for the speakup kernel modules and could not find them.
It does look like the standard 2.6 kernel.
Regards, Willem


On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, John G. Heim wrote:

> One mistake I made the first time I installed speakup is that I installed the 
> 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 speakup-modified kernel. You're given a choice 
> but if you install the 2.6 kernel, then you don't get speakup.
>
> One thing that isn't clear in your message is how you know speakup isn't 
> there. You don't have a synth so obviously, it's not speaking. You say you 
> have sighted assistance so I'm guessing your friend installed it for you? 
> Probably speech wasn't working during the install either, right?
>
> I have an external synth but I know that if I don't have it connected and 
> turned on at boot time, I don't get speech. There is probably some way to get 
> it started but usually, I just reboot.
>
>
> At 10:16 AM 7/8/2005, you wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I downloaded the Debian modified distribution with speakup built in.
>> I want to get software speech going on a laptop for which i do not have a 
>> hw synth.
>> I'll have some sighted help.
>> I tried and got a linux running, but it does not look as if speakup is 
>> there.
>> I will ssh into the laptop once the linux is running from my desktop.
>> I intend to then configure the software speech.  Most people here are using 
>> Debian, but I have only worked with Redhat/Fedora  reasently
>> and with Slacware long ago.
>> Any tips welcome.
>> TIA
>> Willem
>> 
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