at the moment speakup is in modules in fedora. well, I assume it as as to run it I type modprobe speakup_apollo Darragh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:25 PM Subject: Re: Software synths > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > at the risk of being helpful, Janina Sajka delivered up the following on Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:13:13AM -0500, > > You were on a roll until you said "usb." > > > > Darragh writes: > *SNIP* > > > > > > I'd gladly fork out the money if I could find a decent hardware synth which > > > was easy to listen to: was powered by USB, was very responsive and had an > > > external volume control. > > > > The problem with usb is this. > the usb subsystem don't get initialized until well into the boot > process. > after the filesystems are mounted and the modules are loaded well that > might not be true if you have usb compiled into the kernel as opposed to > a module, > however, it's still a good while before it comes up. so if you have a > kernel panic, you're not going to know about it until well, never. > because your synth won't be sitting there spewing out messages you > really need to hear. > the alternative is you get in there and code us a nice usb driver for > speakup or see if you can have it address the current ones and hack the > tripple talk for us so on so forth rant rant rant, > or if you don't want speech right from go to woe compile speakup as > modules. > > > - -- > Shaun Oliver > > > "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au > WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/ > IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 > IRCNICK: blindman > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQFAIkRD67hYtcFGIIcRAttTAJ40yGtgU3gv/SizumeF9qcikxIidwCbBRZX > fWHFMftUWs2d5c5QOhXQN4c= > =dyig > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
