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



Yes there is one:

email fenrir-screenreader-request freelists org with the subject: subscribe

However neither chrys nor storm run Ubuntu, so not sure they can answer and I
don't know if Samuel is registered to this list but my guess is no.

Cheers,
Didier


Le 11/06/2021 à 21:48, K0LNY a écrit :
Is there a fenrir list?
Seems like it installs okay on Arch, but not on Ubuntu.
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Didier Spaier via orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
To: <jheim math wisc edu>; <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT: Anybody know what happened to speakup?


Hi again John,

Meanwhile you can install fenrir which is an userspace application.

I just checked, Samuel has packaged it for hirsute.

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


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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