Speakup

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Keith Watson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently switched to edgy in order to give orca a try. So 
> far I am impressed and excited about it. I would still like to 
> maintain my access to the console though and am looking to put 
> speakup into my kernel. Typically I build my own kernels from 
> kernel.org, but I have noticed that ubuntu patches their kernels 
> and adds a lot of modules to them. I would like to stick with your 
> kernel, but am not sure how to go about patching speakup into it. 
> Is there any documentation available that describes this process? 
> Or are there any plans to incorporate speakup into your kernels?
>   

Hi Keith,

Yes, we patch our kernel a fair bit to add useful features like speakup ;)

We had an implementation plan for this for Edgy but we ran out of time 
to complete it so we haven't announced anything. I believe the current 
status is that the module is compiled with the kernel and included with 
the system but that no user space scripts have been written to load or 
manage it. We are hoping to get some scripts into edgy universe at 
least, but the freeze for that is fast approaching too. I've never used 
speakup myself so I am not too sure how this works. Luke and Ben would 
be the Ubuntu people to ask.

If you are able to help with the user space scripts it would be much 
appreciated :)

For more details see:
https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/speakup-inclusion
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpeakupInclusion

Henrik