Hello,
I have just written the grml 2009.10 CD but I notice that for some
reason when I try and boot it with options for speakup with software
speech output (either the swspeak option or speakup.synth=soft option)
it isn't recognised. The strange thing is it seems to be that when I
give an option to enable software speech output with other options then
grml doesn't seem to recognise the other options either.
Here is what I have done to try and check what happens and also to try
and confirm it isn't me:
* When this first happened I thought may be it was me doing something
wrong (as I get no output at the boot screen) so I tried again but still
the same result.
* I have written it to another CD (at a slower speed as well) incase
something has gone wrong with the CD or went wrong while writing it,
still things don't work.
* When I give the other options on their own they work fine (the other
options are either brltty or blind)
* I tried running swspeak once the booting finished and this started
software speech output.
* I rebooted again specifying swspeak and blind at the boot prompt
(still nothing, expected from previous attempts) I then checked
/proc/cmdline and dmesg to try and find out what it says I gave at the
command line, none of the options I gave were there.
I am now stuck as to why this is happening.
Also I notice (this is on my laptop) the keyboard layout by default is
not anything like I have known in the past (I believe US keyboard layout
is normally the default but this has things like shift+0 as =, what on
the UK keyboard is / as -, the UK keyboard ? is ?, shift+7 gives /, and
a number of symbols I don't even recognise appear on other keys).
Michael Whapples
