Re: [orca-list] OT: Anybody know what happened to speakup?

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Didier, does the "=m" mean they are modules?


Al


On 6/11/21 2:57 PM, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> The speakup project is indeed alive and well, and thr speakup list was 
> down but
> is back on line.
>
> Indeed the speakup kernel driver are still there, but it depends on the
> distribution to provide the drivers built-in or as modules or not at all.
>
> If Ubuntu 2.04/Hirsute doesn't have kernel modules this issue issue 
> should be
> brought to Ubuntu, but are you sure they are not built-in?
>
> Here (on Slint64-14.2) I type to check:
> zgrep SPEAKUP /proc/config.gz
>
> And the output is:
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTSA=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_APOLLO=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_AUDPTR=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_BNS=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECTLK=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECEXT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_LTLK=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SPKOUT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_TXPRT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DUMMY=m
>
> Cheers,
> Didier
>
>
> Le 11/06/2021 à 20:21, John G Heim via orca-list a écrit :
> > Anybody know what happened to the speakup project? I installed Ubuntu 
> > 21.04/Hirsute and it has no speakup kernel modules. I think it got 
> > moved into the main kernel source code branch lately but there should 
> > still be kernel modules, right? TI wanted to ask about that on the 
> > speakup mailing list but the list seems to be gone.
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