Spekkup After Genkernel Compilation
 

Hey folks. After getting Gentoo partially installed on a virtual machine in class, I've come to a slight problem. I'm ready to reboot, but before I did that, I thought I'd add in Espeakup before I did. The emerge went fine, but espeakup warned me that speakup.synth=soft wasn't in my kernel. Now this would be a problem, since I'd have no talking system on reboot. I've tried emerging speakup, but Portage didn't like it, because the version in Portage was old.
Here's the Configuration:
Kernel: genkernel compiled
Bootloader: grub2
Disc used: Gentoo minimal
This disc does use speakup.synth=soft, and it was said in the handbook that whatever was in the disc boot options, I'd get with genkernel. How do I resolve this conflict?
Also noteworthy: I've tried a make menuconfig, but the issue with that is that speakup won't say if anything is selected or not, which is a bit dangerous when it comes to kernel compilation.

You said portage doesn't have the latest version of espeakup, did you run emerge --sync first?

No, I did an emerge-webrsync. Is that an equivellent to emerge --sync, or are they different?

It should do the same thing, are you still having the original problem posted?

Yes, I am still having the same issue. I am curious as to what is going wrong. Is there a way to push a module from the CD and force it in to my kernel?

Until you get this problem resolved did you consider trying an alternative like espeak or other similar packages in portage? do they work/fail?

I've tried Yasr, but I don't think that will be usable with speech-dispatcher. I've gotten espeak, but the problem there is that I need another tool called espeakup, which hooks in to speakup so that it can be used with espeak. I've gotten both espeak and espeakup, but I lack the speakup package. I could, if possible, chroot in to the environment and compile xorg and Gnome, to get there screenreader, Orca.