Slackware is back on version 27 and I couldn't get that working any more with the doubletalk lt synthesizer I have. I think some of tcl got broken and that had an adverse impact on emacspeak-ss which provides the server for doubletalk lt. I did not forget to export the DTK-program and DTK-port variables either. Those packages came off the extra subdirectory on the distribution disks too. I downloaded emacspeak 32 source but have yet to try building it. The most I could get working probably would be doubletalk lt, and maybe espeak and festival and eflite using the sound card since I don't have any of the other hardware synthesizers. Since 3rd party slackware package quality can be all over the place, first priority for me now is to get an rsync hard drive image creation script together so I can back out when an upgrade blows up. That was slackware 13.0, I don't know the state of Slackware 13.1 which was just released recently. The subscribers haven't got their disk sets yet. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Cox Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 9:10 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Vinux 3.0 released! Hi, Jamal. Support for emacspeak is a very high priority for me. It was on the original wish-list. However, with all the Firefox bugs, and other crud I had to deal with, I basically ran out of time. I didn't want to do a half-baked job of integration. I want to do it right. There are also issues of which version to support. I built an updated Debian package for Vinux based on version 32, but the Debian guys are still back on version 29. Gilles Casse complicated matters for me a bit with a version of the older Debian package that has voxin pre-installed, anI tried to add 64-bit suppod with working 64-bit support. Emacspeak users are all power-users, and most of them are installing Gilles' version, rather than the newer version I have, because of voxin support. If you have any pull with the Debian guys who package emacspeak, I have a newer package that also has a properly working watchlist file, which is broken in theirs, which may be one reason they are behind on releases. I also compile the espeak driver by default so that after install, emacspeak comes up talking, while with the Debian package, users have to do more work. I would like your advice on how to best incorporate emacspeak. A good user case is David R. Ring, who is apparently a long-time emacspeak user. I don't know what he does to make emacspeak come up talking in the consoles by default, but when he did, he also had speakup talking at the same time. What is the right way to get emacspeak working in the consoles? I occasionally try it in a gnome-terminal which works well for me, though I've read that users have trouble with it. Do emacspeak users normally have to login without sound, or does emacspeak come up by default? Thanks, Bill On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Another question. Perhaps I missed it, but I did not find mention of > Emacspeak in the Vinux distribution. If it is not included, I'm curious > why, and wonder if there is a convenient script to install it. > > Jamal > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind