Speakup boot disk question

Speakup boot disk question

[Dan Murphy]

Hello Listers.
I just used the new speakup.s bootdisk to upgrade my system and all
went reasonably well, but I have one question.
Since the kernel was compiled with no specific synthesizer starting at
boot time, I have to give the synthesizer name at the lilo prompt on
boot-up.  Is there any way of adding that line to the lilo.conf file
so I don't need to do this?  this may have been mentioned but I wasn't
really paying attention at the time.
Any help would be appreciated, since although  I don't mind doing it
this way I rather like my Speakup coming up automatically when I
choose Linux.

Re: Speakup boot disk question

[Steve Holmes]

Yes, I believe it goes like this:
append "speakup_synth=spkout" or whatever.
I hope I'm not too far off on this one.  I do know the append command goes
in there and it should go inside the boot parameters for the particular
kernel you would boot with.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Hello Listers.
> I just used the new speakup.s bootdisk to upgrade my system and all
> went reasonably well, but I have one question.
> Since the kernel was compiled with no specific synthesizer starting at
> boot time, I have to give the synthesizer name at the lilo prompt on
> boot-up.  Is there any way of adding that line to the lilo.conf file
> so I don't need to do this?  this may have been mentioned but I wasn't
> really paying attention at the time.
> Any help would be appreciated, since although  I don't mind doing it
> this way I rather like my Speakup coming up automatically when I
> choose Linux.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Speakup boot disk question

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

I wrote a message about putting the synth specification in lilo.conf today.
If you didn't see it and don't still have it, let me know and I'll repost
it.

Geoff.

Re: Speakup boot disk question

[Dan Murphy]

Hi Geoff.  I think it may have slipped through the cracks, so-to-speak.
Could you please repost it at your convenience?
Thanks.


On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I wrote a message about putting the synth specification in lilo.conf today.
> If you didn't see it and don't still have it, let me know and I'll repost
> it.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Speakup boot disk question

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes. Add an append= line like the following to your lilo.conf. Note that you need the quotes.
append="speakup_synth=xxxx" 
where xxxx is the name of your synth.
Greg


On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:30:22AM -0400, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Hello Listers.
> I just used the new speakup.s bootdisk to upgrade my system and all
> went reasonably well, but I have one question.
> Since the kernel was compiled with no specific synthesizer starting at
> boot time, I have to give the synthesizer name at the lilo prompt on
> boot-up.  Is there any way of adding that line to the lilo.conf file
> so I don't need to do this?  this may have been mentioned but I wasn't
> really paying attention at the time.
> Any help would be appreciated, since although  I don't mind doing it
> this way I rather like my Speakup coming up automatically when I
> choose Linux.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Speakup boot disk question

[Dan Murphy]

Thanks Greg.  It worked.