What also would be a good ida would have pcspeaker speach until alsa or oss loaded, then swap it for software. So then if you got a kernel panic or some other bootup error, you could here what it was. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:01 PM Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > > Let's be realistic, most modern boards have soundcards on them, > > and something half decent can be had for $10US so > > gone are the days of pc-speaker and parallel port dongles > > True, but the issue we were talking about is the fact that sound usually > isn't set up on an installation CD and many people don't initially know > how to get it working in Linux. Also, if they choose Alsa or kernel > modules, sound isn't ready until some time after the bootup process has > started. The whole point of a PC speaker driver would be to provide > speech to somebody who doesn't have a hardware synth and wants to get > Linux up and running. Granted, I don't think it's real practical, but > that was what was being discussed as I understand it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
