My BIOS has USB legacy support, so I have USB support from the get go. Glenn. ----- 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 7:25 AM 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
