Good, you used the recommended paths. Even if fenrir isn't in the gentoo repository, so long as pip or pip3 is in the repository or already on your system fenrir can be installed. pip install fenrir-screenreader should get that process started. Fenrir-screenreader has a support email group [email protected] for anyone needing help with it. It turns out from what I read, fenrir-screenreader does a better job running inside mate-terminal than orca. That might also hold true for gnome. Original function of fenrir-screenreader is to work in tty (when there's no gui).
-- 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 1940. On Mon, 1 May 2023, matthew dyer wrote: > First, I have used open RC and my main thing is orca as that is why I was > asking. I’ll have to look and see if Fenrir is in the repo. If so, I’ll > give it a look, but even if so, I will still have to have speech of some > sourt. I some times wonder what the point off having an accessibility team > if there is no easy way to get things going. As for what kernel I used I > used a gentoo kernel bin so this should not be a problem. > > Matthew > > > > > On May 1, 2023, at 2:47 PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Nothing exists in terms of a gentoo audio accessibility installation > > walkthrough. I'll be surprised if that ever changes too. Why this is > > happening is because part of espeak comes in the kernel code which is how > > you got gentoo talking at all during installation. I don't know if you > > built your kernel or used a pre-built kernel. Maybe a flag for espeak-ng > > is one of those accessibility flags available during kernel building I > > don't know. If an espeak-ng pre-built kernel doesn't yet exist you'd have > > to build your own kernel and enable that flag. > > This may get you out of the woods or into the weeds, fenrirscreenreader is > > another package you could try to emerge on gentoo and have it start and > > remove espeak-ng. I don't know if you went the systemd route or the > > openrc route. From what I've read, openrc is recommended over systemd on > > gentoo. > > I wish I had better news and I'm another one who could really use an audio > > accessibility installation gentoo walkthrough. > > > > > > -- 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 1940. > > > > On Mon, 1 May 2023, matthew dyer wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have an installed system of gentoo using the gnome desktop profile. I > >> am trying to get orca installed, but emerge is not happy. One if the > >> things it is complaining about is that espeak and Espeak-ng can’t be > >> installed at the same time. Espeak is not even installed, but espeak-ng > >> installed without a problem. I have the accessibility flag in my > >> make.conf so installing accessibility packages should not be this much of > >> a problem. I used ubuntu to do the install if this matters. I am currius > >> if there are any audio walkthrough of doing an install using speech? I’ve > >> tried the official cds but never was able to get speech. Accessibility > >> doesn’t seem to be well documented. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Matthew > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
