Not sure if this helps, but the boot param to specify a synth that I've always used includes an underscore, not a period. "gentoo speakup_synth=ltlk" for example.
Keith -----Original Message----- From: Derek Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] I think gentoo hates me Hi, I've been trying to get Gentoo installed virtually for a while. I'll probably install it on the host too, if I can figure out what the heck is going on. I've downloaded like 4 iso's and haven't been able to get speech on any of them using gentoo speakup.synth=soft For each one, it gives me a command line but no speech, I know I get a command line because speaker-test gives me pink noise. But I give it the control c of death and try espeak hi or espeak hi I don't get any speech. Doing speaker-test after typing espeak and hitting enter doesn't give me pnk noise, so I know I'm in espeak, it just doesn't say anything. The iso's I've tried are the 10.1 dvd (which, after doing a search, I found out didn't have the modules installed properly), the 2009-11-03 minimal, the 10.0 dvd (which, acording to this list, has speakup working) and another minimal, I forget the build date though. My latest is 10.0 and, determined to get something working, I ran gentoo speakup.synth=soft nox dosshd passwd=stuff and accessed my vm that way. Again, I ran speaker-test and got pink noise from my vm, and a lot of errors from my console (I forget what they were but figure they're just because I was running the test from a remote machine), then tried running espeak hi I got no console output and absolutely nothing from my vm. Next I tried modprobe speakup modprobe speakup_soft Both of those gave me an error (I forget what it was, but somethign to do with the module format). But, I was determined to do something with it, speakup working or not, so I went through part of an install. I found that the stage3 tarball and snapshots were not included (this is the 10.0 live dvd, btw) so downloaded them and kept going. I got to the part where you generate a kernel and not wanting to to try it right then, I ran the genkernel script, but when that finished I found none of my commands were showing up in the terminal window, and I didn't get any output, just the livecd prompt. Anyone have any ideas? This is getting rather frustrating, and I probably wouldn't have that problem with the console if speakup would just work... Sorry if this comes across as insulting or anything, I'm just a bit frustrated right now. Thanks.
