Hi John,
* John G. Heim [Tue May 06, 2025 at 08:11:14PM -0500]:
First thing, I want to say, I am really fond of GRML because of it's accessibility features. As the Manager of High Performance Computing at the Math Department of the University of Wisconsin, I was responsible for a beowulf cluster of 6 to 8 small super computers and about 100 Linux desktops. GRML saved my bacon many times. However, I do have a dream. I would like to building a bootable ISO that starts speech automatically during boot.
To start speakup, you have to load a kernel module, speakup_soft. Then you have to run a program, espeakup. I know it is possible to configure that in an initrd file. But I have no idea how to go about doing it with GRML.
Any idea would be most greatly appreciated.
I like your idea and feature request, and have your latest mail with subject "Loading a kernel module at boot?" flagged as important in my mailbox. I just haven't the opportunity yet to look into it.
We've had a swspeak boot option in the past, but as nobody was using/testing that, it got dropped several years ago. But if we know that there are users out there who make actual usage of it, we should change that. :)
We'll figure something out and keep you in the loop! :)
regards -mika-