* John G. Heim [Wed May 07, 2025 at 12:00:58PM -0500]: > > We've had a swspeak boot option in the past, but as nobody was > > using/testing that, it got dropped several years ago. But if we know > > that there are users out there who make actual usage of it, we > > should change that. :) > > > > We'll figure something out and keep you in the loop! :)
> I don't remember hearing about the swspeak option. I will admit that I > sometimes was slow to test the accessibility features of each new release. > Often, a development release would be announced and by the time I got around > to testing it, it was already production. Sorry about that. But I always > just checked if I could get speech after it was done booting. Which has > always worked. I do try to test every release. You might recall that last > fall I posted that the musical tone wasn't working. But it turns out it just > wasn't working on one machine. The swspeak boot option existed until 2011, so it's quite some time that passed since then. :) And no worries about the testing, we had more active and also more inactive times ourselves. If we know whom to reach out and if maintenance isn't too much of a burden, we should be able to manage that. :) > BTW, the speakup developers tell me that you can't activate the speakup > drivers on the Linux kernel command line unless they are compiled into the > kernel. So that is never going to work. Well, you could compile the speakup > drivers into the GRML kernel (instead of compiling them as loadable modules) > but even I think that's a bit much. The main reason I don't think that is > worth while is that nobody has a hardware synth any more. Well, I do but I'm > very much not typical. Software speech would be way more useful to the vast > majority of blind sys admins. Ah ok. > Yeah, so if you could add a kernel parameter, similar to ssh=password, that > enabled software speech during boot, then a blind sysadmin could use > grml2iso to make a customized version that automatically started talking > during boot. It would be like a dream come true for me. Sure, let's get this done. :) To clarify the situation: for *you* only "modprobe speakup" is relevant, or do you use any of the specific modules like speakup_dectlk? Do *you* need anything other than just "modprobe speakup_soft" or alike to get it working/useful for your situation? > I don't know if > you've ever had a crashed authentication server but it's not a good time to > have to press a key at exactly the right time or to have to type exactly the > right thing in order to get speech. I'll bet I typed modprove instead of > modprobe (or speakup+soft instead of speakup_soft) a million times in my > life when a key server was down. 100 professors and TAs can't log into their > computers and I'm like, "Calm down, deep breaths. Slow but steady wins the > race." Hehe, I can very well imagine! regards -mika-
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