On Thu, 5 May 2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > If he's getting kernel panic, there should still be speech, as you say. In most cases, yes. However, if something tries to kill the "init" process, speech will suddenly become very choppy, as though it were constantly being interrupted. I ran across this once when I was experimenting with an initred under an older release of Slackware. I think it was Slackware 9.1, and it didn't have the mkinitrd command as later versions do. So, I had hand-built the initrd, and the documentation with the kernel tells you to run an exec command to run the regular initrd rather than letting the system do it for you. I messed up the exec command, so there was nothing to replace the linuxrc script which was acting as the init process, so I got the kernel panic for an attempt to kill init, and speech became almost unusable. I had to read it word by word, and infer the message from the choppy sounds the synthesizer was making. Other than that, speech should remain operable in most panic situations, but if something is killing the init process, that could explain the garbled sounds.
