-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi again James,
I am moving this thread to gentoo-accessibility, so can we continue discussion there? On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:27:13PM -0500, James Homuth wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Hubbs [mailto:willi...@gentoo.org] > Sent: February 21, 2009 2:21 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: > Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) > > Are you on the gentoo-accessibility mailing list? You might want to > subscribe there. There are a couple of things that still need to happen > (like getting espeakup and speakup to go stable) before we can get them put > on the live cd, but that is being worked on. > > I am, yes. Though admittedly not for very long. > > For now, the last live cd with speakup on it was 2007.0, so you have to > install from that cd. > > Can you run speakup etc with software speech off the 2007.0 CD? No, software speech is not supported on that cd. You will need a hardware synthesizer. > For now, it is possible with the 2008.0 live cd to install over an ssh > connection if you can get to the box that way. > > I was thinking of possibly doing that, too. Hopefully it'll play nice with > the box's hardware (it's a 5-year-old HP laptop). To make sshd start up automatically on the 2008.0 live cd, type something like this at the boot prompt: gentoo dosshd passwd=somepassword That will start sshd. Also, I would suggest using the minimal cd so you don't get an x environment. - --- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmga54ACgkQblQW9DDEZTitHQCcDIc//iOA1MLc/3Yx9y5sOAZL hhAAnRGUVPnSmfuExXl0/dRNQZazVyU9 =ZkEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
