I believe, if it doesn't speak after you plug in synth, you could press insert+enter several times to get kernel restart the Doubletalk synth. Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:01 PM Subject: Re: booting with speakup installed, with no synth attached > I have booted a machine with speakup installed (using Doubletalk > synth) and booted a number of times without the synth attached. I didn't > notice any difference in the boot. (I am sighted my roommate isn't.) The > one thing I noticed is that attaching the synth didn't seem to cause it to > start speaking. But I didn't play arround and there may be a way around > that too. I simply rebooted to make it speak. > > -- > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > ------------------ > > Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. > Alfred North Whitehead > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup