On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:15, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > 1. With festival, speech-dispatcher, speechd-up, and a current version > of speakup patched into a 2.6.17 kernel, activating software speech > failed because the /dev/softsynth device was not created by udev on the > new machine. This happened automatically on my own system, but not on > the new system. > > Solution: On the system that worked okay, the kernel configuration > specified that sftsyn was compiled into speakup. On the new system, it > was compiled as a module. Changing this kernel compile option to "y" > instead of "m" solved the problem. A check of the readme.debian file > with udev explained the problem, but it took me forever to dig that > deeply to discover it. Are you saying that sftsyn cannot be loaded as a module and *must* be compiled into the kernel, or is it a matter of forcing a load of the sftsyn module (/etc/modules) and properly configuring udev? BTW, I'm not a SpeakUp user myself and cannot investigate this, but it struck me as strange that sftsyn would be distributed as a module if it cannot be used as a module. -- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
