Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Speakup Issue

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:52:43PM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi all. I've been installing a Gentoo box as a hobby for the past two
> weeks, and I'm stuck at the reboot. I've stuck with open-rc and
> followed the manual through, but I can't get espeakup to work. When I
> emerge it, I get a warning about speakup.synth=soft not being in my
> kernel. So I think, okay, I'll emerge speakup and see what happens. No
> go: the Speakup is too old for the kernel. The kernel I compiled is a
> genkernel, because I didn't see the kernel maker to be real
> accessible, because I couldn't tell whether anything was checked or
> not. So, how can I get espeakup to function properly?

The first thing is that you do not emerge speakup; you need to configure
it in your kernel. It is part of the staging drivers.

Try adding this line to /etc/conf.d/modules:

modules="speakup_soft"

If you have espeakup installed and you are using the default kernel
configuration, this should work.

William


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