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

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Yes, Al

=m means that they are modules
=y would mean they are buit-in the kernel
" is not set" would mean that they are not mane available.

In Slint I configure all speakup drivers as modules.

Cheers,
Didier


11/06/2021 à 21:14, Al Sten-Clanton a écrit :
> 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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