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

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Erratum: the server is irc.linux-a11y.org

Le 11/06/2021 à 21:44, Didier Spaier via orca-list a écrit :

> If you need help you can ping chrys or storm in the channel #a11y on 
> irc.libera.chat
>
> Didier
>
> Le 11/06/2021 à 21:28, John G Heim a écrit :
> > Do you have an address for the speakup email list?  Just today I sent 
> > a subscribe request to speakup-request linux-speakup org and it bounced.
> >
> > I am pretty sure there are no speakup modules in the 5.11 kernel for 
> > Ubuntu Hirsute. Saying, "modprobe speakup_ltlk" says the module is not 
> > found. And "locate speakup_ltlk.ko" returns nothing. Grepping 
> > /boot/config* for SPEAKUP yields nothing. All of these things work on 
> > Debian bullseye with their 5.10 kernel.
> >
> > Well, anyway, thanks to your tip, it finally occured to me to compare 
> > my Debian machine to my Ubuntu machine and now I know it's not a 
> > speakup problem, it's Ubuntu.
> >
> > This is bad for me though. I manage a beowulf cluster for the Math 
> > department at the University of Wisconsin. The researchers really like 
> > having the latest Ubuntu. I suppose I can get by with ssh and orca.  I 
> > don't know though, speakup and a hardware speech synth have saved my 
> > bacon more than once during my career.
> >
> > On 6/11/21 1:57 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