You can certainly let speakup load and in your init scripts test if the synthesizer is none because it was not found and then do something if this is true -- is this about what you want? I do something like this on my laptop where I may or may not have a serial synth -- if I don't I run software speech using speakup. on Wednesday 02/16/2005 Sean McMahon(smcmahon at usgs.gov) wrote > Ignore the obvious question, No I don't want them running of the same synthesis > at exactly the same time. What I'm trying to develop is a system where one boot > option loads speakup with a bns and another loads brltty and would allow the > inclusion of software speech via emacspeak upon login. The problem is that > brltty loads at somepoint before login, so I'd have to change the way the init > scripts work. Is it possible to change the startup scripts to say if a device > is connected to and active on the serial port then don't load brltty else load > brltty? Will I have to specifically change the init scripts if I configure > brltty with one braille display like the alva satellite then configure speech in > speakup to work off of a bns? This system only has one serial port.Where else > should I be looking for info? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny -- how are you going to spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
