If you really want speakup as close to boot as it gets, I would build it into the kernel -- at least I have done this successfully by getting the git pull of speakup and the kernel sources and then installing speakup into the kernel and compiling the kernel. A bit more work and it might not make sense with a software synth, but it avoids where to load modules, etc. on Friday 03/27/2009 Cheryl Homiak(chomiak at charter.net) wrote > > Ok, I'm pretty sure I'm missing something really obvious--that is, it will > be really obvious to everybody but me!!! I added speakup_ltlk to my > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and ran update-initramfs -u. I don't get > speech at bootup though it does work if I load it manually after login. Is > there an additional place where I need to specify this? > > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com