He said the driver was selectable at *boot* time. This would indicate that you'd need to *reboot* to change the speech driver. Speech driver chosen by a *boot time argument* please read; it makes all our lives easier. No you can't come up with no speech and enable it later. Kerry. On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:35:34PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: > Is it yet possible to boot without speech, then enable it later? Suppose > I'm at a machine using my dectalk express, but this system just might > happen to reboot when I've tak > en the dectalk back when I'm done with the machine, but down time would > matter.u wrote: > >I have just finished modifying Speakup so that multiple synthesizer > >drivers can be included in the kernel, and you can choose which > >synthesizer you want (or no synth at all) as a boot parameter. You > >can set the default synthesizer in the kernel configuration and then > >override the default with the speakup_synth parameter at boot time. A > >synthesizer choice of "none" results in no speech (an especially > >useful default for kernels that will be used by sighted people as well > >as blind people). This modification will enable Linux distribution > >makers to include Speakup in their distributions with little or no > >difficulty. > > > >-- > >Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/> ICQ #: 33005941 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451
