-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well if if is your own machine and you usually want Speakup available all the time, I would go ahead and include the base Speakup statically in the kernel by choosing 'y' to include it instead of 'm' to make it moduler. If you are using hardware speech and include that selection with 'y' also, you can have Speakup talking at the very beginning of the boot process and have access to speech clear down to shutdown and you can track kernel panics if/when they happen. If it were all moduleer with 'm' kernel config options, you could load speakup on to an existing system and start it up on the fly without having to boot the system. The potential here is say a publicly available machine in the library running linux. Just login and pop in a CD with the Speakup modules available and run a script and valah, it's talking! I may be a bit far fetched here but the idea is speakup could more likely be included in standard kernel source this way and have it completely out of the way for those folks who don't need it. Another situation for modules is in the case of software synths. On my box, I have Speakup base and Speakout synth static but sftsyn which is a software speech option, compiled as a module. Whenever I want to use software speech, I can merely echo 'none' to /proc/speakup/synth_name, load up the stuff needed for Speech dispatcher and Flite, then echo 'sftsyn' to /proc/speakup/synth_name. This last step automatically loads the software synth module. Whew! what a long answer. I hope it does help give some of the pros and cons of modules to Speakup. On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:22:58AM -0700, Debee Norling wrote: > When you compile Speakup as a module, what advantages/disadvantages does > this give you? - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAql7XWSjv55S0LfERAseOAJ9MBBq4XzghvmIHiGns5lK+rwFKvgCdHg4I GjRVGQBVTyg6+FO9vaBj+78= =fOZu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
