Enable CONFIG_SPEAKUP & CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT in your kernel which should appear under 'Device Drivers -> Staging Drivers' then add espeakup to boot run level. espeakup is available on the app-accessibility/espeakup package. Then last is to add the speakup.synth=soft kernel parameter.
good luck, likewhoa On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 10:22:36 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > I am doing a gentoo installation and would like to know what else beyond > the gentoo handbook basic installation instructions needs to be done to > have speakup come up talking again on my sound card as it now does during > the install process since I used speakup.synth=soft on the boot line when > starting the install process up. Perhaps a more general question would be > does a generic way exist to have all boot parameters I used come over onto > the hard drive permanently for me? Having skimmed Chapter 7 of the > handbook, genkernel sounds promising once the prerequisite steps are > handled. I don't know if that will be my best route so figured I'd best > ask here first. I may get interested in gnome and orca later if the hard > drive decides not to suicide shortly. I had another hard drive die on me > last week and am not interested in doing all of this installation work > just to have it all go up in smoke. > > > > jude <[email protected]> > > -- likewhoa <[email protected]>
