installing speakup on RHEL 7/8

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I'd check into something like Fenrir. Might do what you want, unless you need that low level access for some reason.

Rob

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From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:40:59 -0700
Subject: RE: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8

> 
> Yes we are prepared to rebuild the kernel but if the code is excluded from
> the staging tree then it's going to be a problem
> 
> I have enquired into the possibilities of using a different distro, and I am
> not going to say it will not happen, but the chance is extremely slim at
> this point.  Unless I can prove that we can't get speakup to run on RHEL
> unfortunately that is not an option.
> 
> --David
> 
> 
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> 
> The Kernel is pretty much a black box from my perspective, but as I
> understand it, Speakup is a Kernel module, each distro is free to decide
> which kernel modules to include in their default kernel, and that due to REL
> being an extremely conservative distro, they exclude pretty much everything
> in the staging tree, which includes Speakup.
> 
> I could be wrong, but I suspect that in order to use speakup on a REL
> system, one would have to compile speakup and any other part of the
> accessibility stack that directly relies on it, if not recompile the whole
> kernel.
> 
> If switching to a different distro that does include speakup in its default
> kernel isn't an option, one might have better luck getting a userland screen
> reader like Fenrir up and running instead.
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