From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ccs.covici.com ([67.62.15.196]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Js7MP-0000dv-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2008 22:20:25 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m432KLn5028937 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 22:20:24 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.13.7/Submit) id m432KL47028934; Fri, 2 May 2008 22:20:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18459.52197.502856.94627@ccs.covici.com> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 22:20:21 -0400 From: John covici To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: soft synth not working at all In-Reply-To: <20080503001852.GA28044@linux1> References: <18459.38805.761626.868914@ccs.covici.com> <20080503001852.GA28044@linux1> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.95.1 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 02:20:25 -0000 What about echoing soft to /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth ? Is that supposed to work -- I gathered from the logs that it was supposed to work now. on Friday 05/02/2008 William Hubbs(williamh@gentoo.org) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi John, > > > > Hi. I am using a git pull of speakup from April 13 and kernel > > 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 and the software speech is not working at all. I > > have speakout builtin and soft as a module, but either echoing soft to > > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth or modprobing the module > > speakup_soft loads the module, but mothing else happens. Also, > > speechd-up says its trying to open the device in the old way and it > > then says it can't find /dev/softsynth . > > Are you passing the start parameter to the module when you load it? If > you are using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to load the soft synth > module, the line should look like: > > speakup_soft start=1 > > Or, if you are loading it manually, > > modprobe speakup_soft start=1 > > Then go ahead and run speechd-up. > > > - -- > William Hubbs > gentoo accessibility team lead > williamh@gentoo.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkgbr2wACgkQblQW9DDEZTh6HgCaAptWF7YB8190BDOfRz9Z5/S2 > qbkAnjhKqjxu/UnGIOx9t8lig+tikKq0 > =1ymU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com