Re: speakup flavour\

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

heya

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:44:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:04:37PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:24:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:40:33PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > > for 2.4 sarge there was a speakup flavour on x86_32
> > > > anyone against adding such to 2.6?
> > > 
> > > Why only for x86 ? 
> > 
> > is it tested somewhere else ?
> 
> Is it dupposed to work ? What does it do exactly ? pass commandline info to a
> speaker or something such i suppose. is there anything x86 spcific in this ?
> 
> I would gladly test it on powerpc at least. and amd64 makes also sense.

fjp mentioned that d-i supports brltty,
which is an userspace daemon. seems like the better solution.
speakup patch has known security troubles.
so i should better shutup, before jumping in front.
the question came up when i got through the dropped 2.4 list of images.

also i'll ask first on d-accessability about the needs.

regards

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maks