I wrote that line in, but it did not fix anything. The emerge error for espeakup said something about "config_speakup" and "config_speakup_soft" not in the kernal, is that what you meant? Sorry for the late response.
On 4/26/14, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:52:43PM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: >> Hi all. I've been installing a Gentoo box as a hobby for the past two >> weeks, and I'm stuck at the reboot. I've stuck with open-rc and >> followed the manual through, but I can't get espeakup to work. When I >> emerge it, I get a warning about speakup.synth=soft not being in my >> kernel. So I think, okay, I'll emerge speakup and see what happens. No >> go: the Speakup is too old for the kernel. The kernel I compiled is a >> genkernel, because I didn't see the kernel maker to be real >> accessible, because I couldn't tell whether anything was checked or >> not. So, how can I get espeakup to function properly? > > The first thing is that you do not emerge speakup; you need to configure > it in your kernel. It is part of the staging drivers. > > Try adding this line to /etc/conf.d/modules: > > modules="speakup_soft" > > If you have espeakup installed and you are using the default kernel > configuration, this should work. > > William > >
