I have an intel i915 with 9 cores and 16GB of ram so it's a fast machine. It mostly runs efi. I have tried install minimal in both amd64 and x86 flavors. I have used gentoo speakup.synth=soft and failed to get it on the boot line with both flavors. After I boot, typing espeak "Hello" has the speakers saying hello but nothing else. The speaker-test program produces static from my speakers at an acceptable volume too. Is alsa muted by default when booting with espeak.synth=soft? I wish a sound prompt would play when it was time to start keying in boot parameters or some kind of documentation on how many seconds on a modern computer someone ought to wait until the boot prompt comes up where gentoo flavor is on a dvd. flash drives would be even faster so without a sound prompt boot time would really be missed often on those drives. I'm not subscribed to the gentoo-user list since not very helpful on these issues.
One more question before signing off for now. The g.u.i. flavor of gentoo, was the screen reader accessibility stack installed on those images? That may be a possibility for installation if already available. -- 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.
