One more not on software synth ...
I have mine booting from lilo with or without speakup.
I used two different kernels and put them both in the
lilo config. It required 2 kernel compilations but
this worked for me:
- applied the speakup kernel patches along with the
modifications for software synth (usrdev).
- configured the kernel to use default synthesizer
"usrdev" on boot (no kernel parameters are needed
at boot time)
- adding this kernel to lilo and called it
vmlinux-speakup, set it to be the default kernel
to boot automatically (timeout 30 seconds).
- Then, to make a version without speakup, I did this:
- saved the kernel .config file
- did a "make mrproper" in /usr/src/linux
- copied the .config file back
- ran "make config"
- selected N (don't include) speakup
- did a make bzImage to compile the kernel
- I added this other kernel in lilo configuration to
be the second kernel in the lilo list. I didn't need
to recompile the kernel modules since the only thing
that changed is exclusion of speakup.
This way by default it boot speakup talking to the
software synth, or I can select the same kernel with
no speakup (or a number of other kernels I have set
up ...)
-- Doug
