Re: Making the access floppy work.

[Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>]

Hi.  The images do have speakup built into the kernel.  To start the
install with a DECtalk express, you would type:

linux speakup_synth=dectlk

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:36:45PM +1100, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have built floppies from the images labelled as access (for the blind)
> and would like to use these to access the new sarge installation process
> with speech.  Do these floppies have speakup kernels?  I have a dectalk
> expressed connected to the serial port, but I am unable to get this to
> work on booting from the boot floppy.  Is there a special boot parameter
> that needs to be used to invoke speakup?
> 
> These are 2.4 kernels, but I will want to build and use a 2.6 kernel.
> To make this process easier, are there any "access" cd images available
> with kernel 2.6 as in versions of the net inst cd image?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Mat.
>