Hi: Since I spent a good couple of hours puzzling over this one today, I thought I might share my experiences so that others may benefit. Recently, we made our other machine dule bootable. This meant two things. firstly, it meant that another person in the house was using linux directly and therefore speakup. Secondly, it meant that I had to deal with a linux box that was rebooted more often than the one I use. Now, when you're using a system that doesn't boot very often, you can get quite comfortable with setting up things the way you want them when it boots and then leaving it, since you don't have to do it very often. However, I soon discovered 2 things. A machine that's booted more often needs to be set up manually more often as a result. This is fine providing that (A) you know the commands, and (B) you're quite happy to type them every time. In this case, neither were true, so I got hassled into getting things to work automatically. And thus to my point. We wanted to have the keyboard echo turn off automatically. since I now not only do that but also set pitch, rate and the contents of punc_some, I decided that I'd get this working on my system as well. First time, it didn't work. Solved that one, symbolic link pointing to the wrong place by vertue of a typo. When it didn't work a second time though, and failed on both systems, I began to smell a rat, particularly when executing the link manually had the desired result. Can you think of what the problem was? Here's the answer. I put it in as early as I could, and this proved to be too early. The/proc filesystem was not yet mounted. Well, I have just tracked down where the proc filesystem is mounted, so for any debian users who want to add such scripts, here's where to add them. The proc filesystem is, believe it or not, mounted near the end of S10checkroot in the /etc/rcS.d directory. since this is the second script executed (the first if you blow away the S05 keyboard thingy), it's pretty easy to make sure you're after this one. but you must make sure you are otherwise the script will do nothing. I put it as the next file (S11speakup.sh) so that if I ever want to boot to single user mode, I'll still get my settings set automatically. Hope this info is useful to someone. Geoff.
