>If you build your own kernel and you have made an RPM there
>are a couple things you can do, though not with a stock RedHat CD.
Right. I can download Red Hat to my hard disk and do these things,
but a new user wishing to install Red Hat with a CD and a Speakup boot
disk probably couldn't. So perhaps I should modify Red Hat to install
a Speakup kernel and then upload the modified distribution to the
Speakup FTP site.
>It would be a pain in the ass for RedHat to test a whole whack
>of kernels and provide them during the install. I'm sure they
>are of the mind "You take the kernel we have provided, and
>thoroughly tested, or you can figure it out yourself". There would
>be requests for tens, maybe hundreds of different kernel configs
>and it would become seriously hard, if not impossible to test.
You're right about that. And Speakup is written for such a niche
market (blind people with hardware speech synthesizers) that Red Hat
probably wouldn't want to spend much time on it, nor would they have
the resources to test the kernels (though I would willingly let them
borrow my DoubleTalk synthesizer, since I don't need the speech
myself).
By the way, if anyone is interested, the Speakup home page is at:
http://www.linux-speakup.org/
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