Hunter, what you need to enable in your kernel is the following options. 1. CONFIG_SPEAKUP 2. CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT or whatever your synthesizer is you should have many options in there.
After this is done emerge espeakup should work. On Sat, 3 May 2014 12:54:35 -0400 Hunter Jozwiak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- likewhoa <[email protected]>
