-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:02:20PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Well this might call for a little egg on my face:). I didn't realize > I needed to load both modules at the same time to be able to switch > between them. I always thought echoing the synth name would cause the > loading and unloading of respective modules. That was true in pre-git versions of speakup, but not anymore. > I > experimented earlier with modprobing of speakup_soft without any > special paramaters and my machine appeared to lockup entirely so at > that point I was a bit nervous about loading additional speakup > modules. Yeah, there was a point during git history where softsynth could cause some kernel panics. However, according to the git changelog, those problems have been fixed in the latest versions of speakup. > > In the past (before 2.6.22), I was used to having spkout hard coded > into the kernel and loading softsynth via modules and could always > switch between them. Now that speakup is completely modular, I wasn't > exactly sure how things worked. You can still do it that way, (I do), but you have to build your own kernel, and patch it with speakup of course. > My one remain point of clarification then is concerning the softsynth > module. If I wanted to load software speech first and use either > espeakup connector or speechd-up, do I need to always start the module > with start=0 and then get espeakup or speechd-up loaded as soon as > possible there after? When I had tried loading soft without specifying > that, I had experienced lock-ups as mentioned earlier. Until you upgrade to the latest speakup from git, which is supposed to fix all these problems, I'd recommend that you modprobe speakup_soft with start=0, and then echo soft to synth_name, and then start espeakup/speechd-up/whatever your interface to speakup's softsynth driver is. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj6oScACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDw2wCcDxFTehYgJVGtZ4jLZvTdQpbH zHwAni/sWuuMxVaAJ1cAWMQPamP1Vfin =dpbs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
