Re: [gentoo-user] for the speakup users on the list

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:53 AM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I am blind and can disassemble computers okay but never could learn
> to assemble them since the equipment to test memory external to computers
> has been and will remain inaccessible.  This if it's done will have to be
> done by a repair shop and likely will cost more to repair this machine
> than replace it if that much work is involved.
>

I was curious about speakup as I had not heard about it so I attempted
an install on my Ubuntu desktop but it's not in the default repositories.

Reading the Ubuntu docs they say speakup is applied as a kernel
patch to 2.4 & 2.6 level kernels and that to use it with a modern
version the patches would have to be ported. It appears that all
the docs on speakup I found quickly stalled out in 2008-2010.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/doc/Speakup

Do you know of newer work?

I'm curious about the program from a persona point of
view. When I started at National Semiconductor in 1978
we had a cantankerous old guy working on text-to-speach
synthesizers so I had a little bit of exposure.

There are old Ubuntu releases here:

https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/

If I can figure out what kernels they were running I could
possibly try creating a VM and see where it leads me.

Echoing Jack's comment, I'm not sure this is a heat
sink problem. Misoperation at the time of letting
go of the reset button prior to POST. If the machine is
starting cold a processor wouldn't overheat that fast but
I haven't yet read all of your thread.

I think there's also an opportunity here to do some sort
of remote debug with you if we can find anything that does
boot.

Mark