You probably have to put the modules into your initrd...I'm not familiar with this as I use slackware which doesn't use initrds...though looking at mkinitrd I think it is should help. THen you have to find a way for the startup script to detect the speakup.synth param and load the correct module. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:02:16PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > I installed the 2.6.26 kernel from debian lenny along with the speakup > modules. I modified my /boot/grub/menu.lst to use speakup.synth=ltlk as a > boot parameter. But I don't get speech during boot. If I log in after it > boots and type 'modprobe speakup_ltlk' then I get speech. > > Any explanation for this? Below is the boot stanza from my menu.lst. > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-486 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-486 root=/dev/hda1 ro speakup.synth=ltlk > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. -- Linus Torvalds
