hello, thanks again. I had totally forgotten about echoing, but figured there was another way to do it... guess I could've looked at the source for the keymap, but... thanks for the help. it's appriciated. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler at tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:37 PM Subject: Re: making speakup speed up > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:37:36AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> Read the speakup user's guide. > > Thought there was only a changelog file available, and only if > you did a git pull of the source. <grins> Is this guide still on some > wiki page that can't be accessed from CLI web browsers somewhere, and > spread throughout 60,000 messages? (Gods, I love helpful statements > like the above..) > > Insert or CapsLock plus F1 is the help system. > (Press Space to exit.) > Insert or Capslock plus 1 or 2 controls the volume. > Insert or CapsLock plus 3 and 4 controls pitch. > Insert or Capslock plus 5 and 6 controls rate. > > You can echo a value to settings located in either: > /sys/module/speakup/parameters > > ...or: > > /proc/speakup > > For example: > > echo "5" > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/vol > > ...will set the volume to 5 from a script you can place in /etc/rc.boot, > or whatever your system uses for personal system startup commands, like > /etc/rc.local in Debian. HTH, > This, Gregory, is an example of helpful information, and not > useless, wasted bandwidth that doesn't even provide a URL for this > "Users Guide" you assume everyone knows about. LFOGTFOOTW. <wink> > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 3375 (20080821) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >