From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: gentoo-accessibility@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-accessibility] Questions about using install media as a blind user.
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 18:24:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7750ac5c-d325-76df-f5ca-f344f9a47bcc@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004c01d96fe0$cec3dbc0$6c4b9340$@gmail.com>
Here is all of the boot parameters I used in order:
gentoo nodmraid nogpm nofirewire nokeymap ide=nodma doscsi dousb slowusb
speakup.synth=soft
This is directly from my gentoo notes which I preserved.
I could probably leave the ide stuff out since this is now on nvme for the
most part.
--
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
Please use in that order."
Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, ilovecountrymusic483@gmail.com wrote:
> Jude, When bbooting the image in a vm, typing speakup=speakup.soft doesn't
> seem to work. I don't have bareboons hardware so want to try this in a vm
> for now. Have you tried in a vm? Anyone elsse on this list tried this.
> There doesn't seem to be much info on accessibility. Thanks.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2023 3:11 PM
> To: gentoo-accessibility@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-accessibility] Questions about using install media as a
> blind user.
>
> At the boot prompt: speakup=speakup.soft needs to be keyed in to bring
> speakup up talking. It's been several years since my last failed gentoo
> install but I was able to get gentoo speaking while that failure happened.
> You'll learn lots about your hardware when you do this.
> What killed me every gentoo install was the kernel building step near the
> end of the install.
>
>
> -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> Ed Howdershelt 1940.
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, ilovecountrymusic483@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi, Thanks,. Disd you have to do anything to get espeakup running at
> > boot or did you just type espeakup as root? Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2023 6:19 PM
> > To: gentoo-accessibility@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Questions about using install
> > media as a blind user.
> >
> > 1) The minimal image includes espeak I never got as far as orca though.
> > Orca may be something you need to emerge once you get a console
> > installation running.
> >
> >
> > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used
> > in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
> order."
> > Ed Howdershelt 1940.
> >
> > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, matthew dyer wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I am new to this list and to gentoo in general, but have some
> > > questions
> > regarding installing using the media iso.
> > >
> > > First, do theISOS enclude the accessiblity packages such as
> > > espeakup, orca
> > etc. I have downloaded the live images from the 9th of April. There
> > are also minimal images but not sure if these will work. Anyway, The
> > install guide does not mention the accessibility team here all though
> > there is info on the web site which is where I found this list. I
> > have not seen a message come through here. So hopefully My message
> > will come through. Any way if there is any info I might have missed
> > someware I will be greatful. Thanks for the help. BTW, I think that
> > accessibility should be mentioned in the guide for people who need it.
> > I will certainly give the live image a try and see what happens. I will
> be installing to a VM.
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-15 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-14 22:04 [gentoo-accessibility] Questions about using install media as a blind user matthew dyer
2023-04-14 22:18 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-04-15 18:30 ` ilovecountrymusic483
2023-04-15 19:11 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-04-15 21:25 ` ilovecountrymusic483
2023-04-15 22:24 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2023-04-15 22:26 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-04-15 22:28 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-04-16 8:27 ` Anna Vyalkova
2023-04-16 8:36 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-04-16 13:53 ` ilovecountrymusic483
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