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

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

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Fri, 11 Jun 2021, K0LNY wrote:

> 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 ? 21:28, John G Heim a ?crit :
> > > 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 ? 20:21, John G Heim via orca-list a ?crit :
> > > > > 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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