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

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

Thank you much for that!


Al


On 6/11/21 3:31 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> 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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