-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, I'm currently working on a series of CD based Linux systems which are designed to be useful in a variety of circumstances. They're not designed specifically for the blind, but I and the other developers have decided that where ever possible we will make them accessible to the widest variety of people. Anyway, what I'm writing about is that I would like possible suggestions on how I can deal with a potential access problem. As a lot of you know, alsa mutes your sound card by default when the driver is loaded. One can set the volumes and then use alsactl, but for a volitile environment such as that on a system run from a CD that's obviously not really an option. This means that even if one passes boot parameters requesting speakup be loaded, if they're using software speach then they have to set volumes using something like amixer before the speach will work. I can't automate this since control names, acceptable values, etc. vary from card to card and I have no idea what hardware people might use this on. Does anyone have experience dealing with this problem, and is there a better way than forcing one to manually set reasonable volumes on his/her sound card? If it helps or matters, these systems are Gentoo based. Looking forward to hearing your ideas. Thanks in advance. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJKeXXZAAoJEMh8jNraUiwqKGkH/1Jrc8ctW4vYDKIcB3GbjS6V nPygzKovnp1ncvcDhhmHgOWLJhDGpdtofjCPDlMKHOQlkwRtjDByI/xLo9ZeXBtf df6Jx7xSub+UgBoZ4opA/BnVCMH+DsyjW/pHm24J8qkQsDUeC+MEw1O//Ssz8JE5 rMudU5ngnUQ92buQR2nXRuOgnYkIFrgNGPOGAwFsDJIT0nRAe7iK9z75aIVe8QoQ qztPFYEBoSUlafmrxRF+Js3lRYamD84gg6LLcisjbA6iBf86mvISwdkRht3D4GbY BoJk5osSn+JEPPOKBScx3bKO57TCH+h0+STs36TAYB/VkJ90cZIhycXQBWZNvcw= =l//S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
