I seem to recall in newer speakup that you separate speakup and synth with a period speakup.synth=dectlk reguarding your building of modules under ubuntu 8.10; there is nothing running on that port that might upset the dectalk? Note that speakup will not function inside x, you will need to switch to a text console with whatever the key sequence is for this. left control, left alt f1 seems to spring to mind. Speakup talked when the system was going down because X windows exited and messages were coming up on the text console. Speakup will not talk in gnome terminal, x-terminal or anything that is GUI or when the screen is in graphics mode. It talks at a text login prompt, and in applications run on a text console. Sorry if you allready knew all this but perhaps that helps a bit. Just because you modprobe speakup in a gnome terminal does not mean the machine will start talking until you switch to a text console. If I modprobe speakup modules over a telnet session; the box in question won't talk till I hit keys on its keyboard in the text console. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Noblick" <brunobrook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup info" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:59 PM Subject: another attempt to use speakup > Hello all, > > I have pulled much of what I have done here from threads on this list but > then I took a few leaps of faith on my own to get to a goal that has only > very recently come into focus. I will now explain. > > I started with Ubuntu 8.04 and just recently upgraded to 8.10. > Then I opened a shell session with gnome-terminal. > Then I tried a variant on Kerry's instructions to get speakup working. I > built speakup as suggested, successfully. Since I am using a DECTalk, I > skipped the espeakup and did the modprobe and specified speakup_dectlk > instead of speakup_soft. > It told me that it worked. > But then it was silent until I shut the computer down. > Then it talked while the computer was going down. > I had hoped that it would come up talking , even if only up to the login > prompt, But it didn't. > Then I connected using ssh and had similar results when I did the modprobe > command. > Then I saw the thread from just a few days ago about grml. I downloaded > and created the CD, found and read over the cheat sheet and attempted to > boot with it and specified grml speakup_synth=dectlk. > I couldn't get that to work. > All I am trying to do now is get something to work with speakup. > I like the idea of a live CD That would allow me to get the best of the > command line interface when I want it while allowing me to have the gnome > environment. > I feel like I am close to it but I am apparently missing one or more > steps. > Any thoughts are welcome. > > Thanks! > > Bruce Noblick > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
