I am not sure what I did/didn't, I think it could be the version update that
did the trick, I now see the speakup_soft module available, but I am still not
getting speech on the console, which is about where I was about 2 clean
installs ago ...
david@ubuntu:~$ inxi -S
System:
Host: ubuntu Kernel: 5.15.0-60-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/0
Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
david@ubuntu:~$ systemctl status espeakup.service
● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-02-12 23:07:44 UTC; 9min ago
Docs: man:espeakup(8)
Process: 753 ExecStartPre=modprobe speakup_soft (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 784 ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup --default-voice=${default_voice}
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 798 (espeakup)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 6880)
Memory: 10.5M
CPU: 183ms
CGroup: /system.slice/espeakup.service
└─798 /usr/bin/espeakup --default-voice=
Feb 12 23:07:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Software speech output for
Speakup...
Feb 12 23:07:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Software speech output for Speakup.
david@ubuntu:~$
Am I missing something?
--David
-----Original Message-----
From: Volodymyr Dorozhinsky <dorozhin...@ukr.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2023 6:05 AM
To: David <bear...@yahoo.com>; 'Jude DaShiell' <jdash...@panix.com>;
ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: installing ubuntu with speakup
Hi,
Maybe Ubuntu-Server does not come with speakup kernel module? At least in my
both setups of Ubuntu-Mate 20.04 and 22.04 I did not have to install it
manually.
Here is an output from my 20.04 machine:
dorozhinsky2@dell-Inspiron-5570:~$ inxi -S
System: Host: dell-Inspiron-5570 Kernel: 5.15.0-58-generic x86_64
bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.24.0
Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)
dorozhinsky2@dell-Inspiron-5570:~$ systemctl status espeakup.service
● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2023-02-07 14:40:05 CET; 22min ago
Docs: man:espeakup(8)
Main PID: 1366 (espeakup)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 9260)
Memory: 6.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/espeakup.service
└─1366 /usr/bin/espeakup -V
Feb 07 14:40:05 dell-Inspiron-5570 systemd[1]: Starting Software speech
output for Speakup...
Feb 07 14:40:05 dell-Inspiron-5570 systemd[1]: Started Software speech
output for Speakup.
Best regards
Volodymyr
On 2/7/23 04:57, David wrote:
> I guess I am lucky I have had good experience with Debian so far. It was
> suggested that ubuntu is supposed to work better with the hardware I am
> about to be installing on [at work] but since I am testing on some different
> hardware [at home] I can't tell if that is true or not
>
> --David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 7:34 PM
> To: David <bear...@yahoo.com>; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky'
> <dorozhin...@ukr.net>; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup
>
> You would have to make the right choices in debian to get what you want
> they're not default. I've done much of it before but found slint far more
> straightforward to get this process working
>
>
>
> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense
> of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>
> .
>
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2023, David wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info, it's been a while since I was last at an
>> in-person meeting, so that might not be a bad idea, except for lugging
>> all the equipment along
>>
>> However, from your description it does not sound like it is an easily
>> repeatable process, so I will have to seriously consider looking into
>> switching the distro to, say, Debian, or something that would
>> hopefully work 'out of the box'
>>
>> --David
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 5:44 PM
>> To: David <bear...@yahoo.com>; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky'
>> <dorozhin...@ukr.net>; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup
>>
>> Some distributions have a section where you get to choose what kernel
>> and version of kernel you want to install. If ubuntu hasn't got
>> generic kernel available you can't do it with ubuntu until after
>> installation and doing that isn't a trivial process either It's a
>> matter of downloading the kernel image file then installing it over
>> the kernel ubuntu put on your disk. Best done by linux experts at the
>> linux user's group install linux club day meeting.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
>> defense of liberty:
>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>>
>> .
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2023, David wrote:
>>
>>> How do one use the generic kernel while installing? I just pop the
>>> disk in, boot, and follow the questions [well, someone is reading
>>> them to me]
>>>
>>> --David
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 2:00 PM
>>> To: David <bear...@yahoo.com>; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky'
>>> <dorozhin...@ukr.net>; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup
>>>
>>> If you had the option to use generic kernel when doing a reinstall
>>> the speakup modules are in that kernel. How you install missing
>>> modules is possible if on your disk in source code but you'll have
>>> to build them correctly first. If you had mlocate package installed
>>> and had done updatedb first then you could do locate speakup_soft
>>> and find if you have that module in source code on your disk.
>>> Alternatively ubuntu in its customizations could have blacklisted
>>> all of the speakup modules. They would be on the disk and would
>>> have first to be removed from the blacklist then built and then
>>> installed. It's a complicated
>> process, just the way ubuntu wants it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
>>> defense of liberty:
>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2023, David wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, then I guess adding the module manually myself, if that is
> possible?
>>>> --David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 1:17 PM
>>>> To: David <bear...@yahoo.com>; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky'
>>>> <dorozhin...@ukr.net>; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
>>>> Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup
>>>>
>>>> Apparently, ubuntu rolled its custom kernel and excluded all of
>>>> the speakup modules.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used
>>>> in defense of liberty:
>>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2023, David wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, I can always do another clean install, but it doesn't
>>>>> appear the speakup module is there after the install, at least I
>>>>> am unable to find it in the module list, and modprobe doesn't
>>>>> seems to be able to find it either
>>>>>
>>>>> From the output it appears espeakup is also looking for it and
>>>>> wasn't able to, thus asking if someone has step-by-step
>>>>> instructions to make sure I didn't missed anything
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again ?
>>>>>
>>>>> --David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2023 12:37 PM
>>>>> To: David <bear...@yahoo.com>; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky'
>>>>> <dorozhin...@ukr.net>; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
>>>>> Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be time to install fenrirscreenreader. That or replace
>>>>> ubuntu with
>>>> another distribution.
>>>>> You can get much cleaner output by appending 2>&1|tee -a
>>>>> espeak.log to
>>>> each command then read down through espeak.log once you finish
>>>> getting all of these failures. The ansi codes get stripped out
>>>> that
>> way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be
>>>>> used in defense of liberty:
>>>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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