On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, John Covici wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:09:16 > From: John Covici <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:49:54 -0400, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:34:43 > > > From: Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> > > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] > > > > > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:00:04 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > > > I did make menuconf in /usr/src/linux and in devices->staging drivers I > > > > found nothing to enable. Speakup got moved out of staging so that's > > > > understandable. in device drivers->accessibility all I found was enable > > > > app-accessibility which I turned on. Is speakup.synth=soft stored in > > > > the runtime driver for espeak now? > > > > > > Press / in menuconf to search for options. This also shows options that > > > are currently unavailable, and what you need to enable to get at them. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > A search through options made no mention of anything connected to > > accessibility. Trying to install a different kernel source has everything > > masked. I'll read up on masking next, but it's looking like I'm going to > > have to erase everything back to the get stage3 step again and get a less > > current stage3 to get anything installed at all. > > You don't need to do that, you can unmask anything depending on the > reason. Didn't the autounmask option fix your problem? > > You can also use the 5.4.66 stable version. > Also, even in 5.8.13 speakup is still in staging and I did a search > and found it in drivers/staging/speakup, so you can certainly try > that or whatever version of 5.8 you have. > >
-- The unmasking fixed nothing on this end. I probably download the wrong set of files. Current isn't stated in the file names though it is on directory paths. It might help as a check to put stable or current in as part of the file names in future. I've cleaned the hard drive of gentoo and will start over if I can figure how to do it correctly.
