[arch-general] Offer help for our ISO building

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net> wrote:
> "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Angel Velásquez <angvp at archlinux.com.ve> wrote:
>
>>> What about support for accesibility people?, a friend (FlaPer87) and i
>>> can help with some thoughts for accesibility stuff.
>>
>> Just tell me what needs to be done. Is it a simple matter of adding
>> some packages to the ISO, or do certain things need to be run on
>> startup as well?
>
> The following applies to spoken output for the blind.  Not sure about
> other sorts of accessibility.
>
> Certain things need to be run on startup.  Sound should be unmuted, and
> volume should be set to something reasonable.  Perhaps:
> amixer set Master 80% unmute
> amixer set PCM 80% unmute
> We need a daemon and a couple of kernel modules.
> The modules are speakup and speakup_soft, and the daemon is called
> espeakup.
>
> I have PKGBUILDs for these in unsupported:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/speakup/speakup.tar.gz
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/espeakup/espeakup.tar.gz
>
> The binary packages espeak and alsa-utils are used, and they bring in
> several dependencies.
>
> Most folks won't want speech at boot, so it should be optional.
> Perhaps a script could examine /proc/cmdline and start speech if
> the user supplied a certain argument to the bootloader?

But how does a blind person reliably edit the grub prompt?