Justin Ekis <jekis@sbcglobal.net> writes: > Hi all, hi, [...] > How fesable are these options? I'd like to use one of those so I can > have the speech and review functions I'm used to. If I remember > correctly, there's no way right now to run speakup from installation > media. Correct me if I'm wrong. Previous posts on this list related that speakup-enabled installation floppies were available from linux-speakup web site : you may try them and say here if it works. I won't go further with speakup as I've never used it... > My other option is to use brltty from the cdrom. It would be easier to use a prepared flavor of BRLTTY from a floppy -- you can even include it during the boot part (on a dedicated third floppy). > I suppose I could try that but I have never used brltty before. I'm > not even sure it works with my braille display. I have a braille > lite m20 and the docs only mention earlier models. How well does > this work? No idea, but you can test on another distro if you already have one. I've wrote a little file to explain how to cleanly provide the famous third floppy with BRLTTY on it : tests have been done with BRLTTY 3.0, so you may try with this and ask for the paper. The paper isn't maintained now, and for different reasons (mainly because of D-I). However, it still works with current installation process for woody. > Finally, I just built a custom kernel for my system with speakup. It's > quite small and very fast. Can > I just drop that in after installing Debian? When Debian is installed, you do what you want :-) I suggest you take the kernel config file into your brand-new sid and then recompile the kernel with "the debian way" (for pkgs db integrity), but it's up to you. I hope it helps bye -- Boris Daix "In Freedom We Trust" (IFWT) (C) 2003 by Boris Daix ;-)
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