Just to add something quickly: every entry in the bootloader menu specifies a particular kernel, either the normal one or the graphical one, and a set of kernel parameters. The speech synthesis option in the install menu of the official install discs uses the graphical kernel, with video parameters of just "vga=788", without the usual additional graphical option of "video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr", and with the addition of the following kernel parameter:
speakup.synth=soft live-build actually allows the user to specify custom kernel parameters to be added to the default list it outputs when creating the menu entries. So you could use that means right now to craft a live disc with menu entries that run with speech synthesiser enabled, and then just pick the graphical entries from the bootloader menu (which use the graphical kernel, as the install disc speech synth entry does), if use of the graphical kernel is important. There are two live-build parameters for this, one applicable to 'live' menu entries (--bootappend-live) and the other applicable to 'install' menu entries (--bootappend-install). I don't know whether the exclusion of the video kernel parameter in the official install disc speech synth entry is important. If so, you might find that you can add a video parameter to your custom list and override the default setting live-build supplies to the kernel, by having it supplied to the kernel a second time. You would of course need to know what to set it to, which I can't answer. Btw, it is important that you stick to the default syslinux bootloader and not switch it to grub/grub2 in your live-build config if you do the above because there are currently several issues with using grub and grub2 in relation to kernel parameters at the moment, issues which I filed bug reports and patches for yesterday, but which haven't been adopted yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
