[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: [Oralux] Kernel Panic on boot-up"):
> Is there a similar technique for speakup?
If you only need speech (no braille, no special keyboard configuration
and no multi-lingual support), grml may be a viable option. It comes
with a speakup enabled kernel and has emacspeak and flite installed.
It is a live CD and I have used it successfully in the past to for
example repartition a disk with parted. It can be installed and will
basically give you Debian unstable. The installation is done in text
mode, so it should be accessible with speakup (I have not tried this myself).
In general, if you want to install a Linux distribution and you do not
want to reinstall completely every 6 months or so, I would strongly
recommend going with either Ubuntu or with a distribution that
installs some clean flavor of Debian. Specifically, I would *not* go
with the Knoppix style install of Oralux because It will probably not
be updateable with apt-get for a long time in the future. This is
because Knoppix is not exactly Debian unstable. For inexperienced
users, Ubuntu is probably the most suitable as you can "dist-upgrade"
it about every six months without reinstallation while Debian unstable
can sometimes break and you have to fix it yourself. I do not know an
easy way to get speakup on Ubuntu. Also, I did not manage to install
Edgy without sighted assistance but supposedly, it is possible.
Of course, Oralux is great if you need accessibility to work out of
the box and need things other than speech.
Best regards, Lukas
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