Well, got the DECtalk pc working. Here's how I did it in case any of you want to know. I got the latest cvs version of speakup and compiled the kernel modularizing speakup and its various modules (including the decpc module). Then, I did a make modules and make modules_install and make bzImage (not necessarily in that order). Then, I installed it and ran lilo to tell lilo about the new kernel. When I booted up, everything was silent. I logged in as root, changed to the directory where I had the dtload program, ran dtload and DECtalk said it was initialized. Then, I did the following: modprobe speakupmain echo decpc > /proc/synth_name and it came up talking after that. Here is my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file where I put these commands. Any reason why this shouldn't work? I just booted up with this and it seemed to work all right. Here is the file: #!/bin/sh # # /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Local system initialization script. # # Put any local setup commands in here: /usr/local/lib/dec_pc/dtload modprobe speakupmain echo decpc > /proc/speakup/synth_name
