I don't think you need to load speakupmain as loading the synth driver should pull it in as a dependency. That's the point of modprobe. Also, you m ight want to build an initrd with decpc so that it will talk during the boot like Speakup 1.x does. Joseph Norton writes: > From: Joseph Norton <jenorton at chartertn.net> > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org
