From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cantata.rednote.net ([66.92.170.86]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF2A9-0002qZ-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:03:49 -0500 Received: from cantata.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id h9U23jiM013903 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:03:46 -0500 Received: (from janina@localhost) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) id h9U23ifq013901 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:03:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:03:43 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-ID: <20031030020343.GC26784@rednote.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Subject: Re: Dectalk pc working X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:03:49 -0000 I don't think you need to load speakupmain as loading the synth driver should pull it in as a dependency. That's the point of modprobe. Also, you m ight want to build an initrd with decpc so that it will talk during the boot like Speakup 1.x does. Joseph Norton writes: > From: Joseph Norton > > Well, got the DECtalk pc working. > > Here's how I did it in case any of you want to know. > > I got the latest cvs version of speakup and compiled the kernel > modularizing speakup and its various modules (including the decpc module). > > Then, I did a make modules and make modules_install and make bzImage (not > necessarily in that order). Then, I installed it and ran lilo to tell > lilo about the new kernel. > > When I booted up, everything was silent. I logged in as root, changed to > the directory where I had the dtload program, ran dtload and DECtalk said > it was initialized. > > Then, I did the following: > > modprobe speakupmain > echo decpc > /proc/synth_name > > and it came up talking after that. > > Here is my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file where I put these commands. Any reason > why this shouldn't work? I just booted up with this and it seemed to work > all right. > Here is the file: > > #!/bin/sh > # > # /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Local system initialization script. > # > # Put any local setup commands in here: > /usr/local/lib/dec_pc/dtload > modprobe speakupmain > echo decpc > /proc/speakup/synth_name > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina@rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org