Itain't necessarily so. You can choose to compile the module for a synth into the kernel, in which case it will talk from the git go just like it always has. On my DEC Alpha system that's exactly how it works. I just compiled a 2.4.21 kernel for this sytem, and that's what I did for my internal Doubletalk card. But, on my portables, it's nice to think I can plug any synth in and just reload a different driver instead of rebooting as we had to under Speakup 1.x. Adam Myrow writes: > From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com> > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > So, under your current circumstances, you will not have speech during > > the boot or login process. Once in, however, you can launch Speakup as > > follows: > > Man, that's the real draw-back of modularizing Speakup. For me, the major > selling point of Speakup is its capability of speaking earlier in the boot > process than any DOS or Windows screen reader. I realize that this gets > sacrificed for software speech, but I hope it never goes away as an > option in Speakup for those of us fortunate enough to own hardware speech > synthesizers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
