On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Alex Snow wrote: > How is this going to work? bc speakup loads early in the boot process > prior to any sound drivers. so would speakup wait for the sound drivers > and then load? > No, the current plan is to have Speakup load as normal but to send any data to non-existence while no user-land program is trying to read from the device we created. Once a program opens the device for reading then any new data to be spoken will be sent to the program that opened it. This means that if a problem happens during the boot sequence you're pretty much SOL but it also allows us to use Festival and other similar high-quality speech synths for normal operation. Hope this helps, Owen
