Georgina Joyce wrote: (please don't top-post!)
> Follow the remaster howto. Once I had the root.ext2 file mounted upon my > hard disk I downloaded and installed: > > Portaudio18 > Espeak1.28 > Speech-dispatcher (I had an cvs snapshot, so I checked out the latest update) > Speechd-up-0.4 > Unixcw_2.2 (Not necessary just a little quirk of mine, to give audiable cues) > Any ./configure options besides --prefix? > I removed all /lib/modules/2.6.22... > > I moved a kernel tarball that contained 2.6.21.5 source patched with speakup. > Into /usr/src and removed the 2.6.22 sources after copying the .config file. > I didn't know what I'd get by running "make oldconfig" but it generated a > new config after asking me some questions about supporting particular > devices, which I thought to be strange. But looking through it, it contains > support for more than I'd built in support so I'm hoping that it took as many > settings as it could that matched. > OK, please mail the resulting .config to the list. > I generated a script which I called software_speakup (see below) and put it > in /etc/rc.d/init, in rc3.d I linked to it giving it a value of 99 i.e. > S99software_speakup. > Why rc3.d? Does it work if you start it immediately after udev, i.e., as S11 in rcS.d? Is it needed to suppress the language and timezone dialogs then? Also, I think that you should copy lines from the brltty script instead of adjusting dialogrc manually. > # Ensure that alsa volumes are acceptable. > > amixer set Master 28 on > amixer set PCM 28 on > amixer set AC97 playback 0 Capture 100 > amixer set Capture 12 on > amixer set Mic 0 cap > amixer set 'Mic Boost (+20dB)' on > amixer set CD 28 on > amixer set 'PC Speaker' 10 on > This won't work on anything except your hardware. I will try to integrate Debian's unmuting script, but it is also not ideal. > if [ `cat /proc/speakup/synth_name` = "none" ] > What does "none" mean here? What are the other possible values? > If you want me to send anything electronically or if you want a copy of the > disk through the post let me know. > You can try splitting the iso into 50MB chunks and putting them to http://rapidshare.com/ -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
