----- Original Message ----- From: "William Hubbs" <w.d.hubbs@xxxxxxxxx> > I might be able to set it to none if we time out, but the current design > would mean that it would also be set to none if you hit print screen to > turn off speakup, so I don't know if you want that either. > > What do you think? > Well, I'm not too sure if I am following you completely but I think the new system allows you to get speech for logging in even if you forget to attach your synth before booting. In the past, if you forgot to attach your synth before you booted, you had to log in without speeach and start speech manually. I understand why John C. wants to be able to tell which synth module is being used. If you could do that, then you could put the driver for the hardware synth in the initrd but if it wasn't attached, you could load the software speech module and use software speech. I used to have my laptop set up to do that. All it did was grep the output from lsmod for the driver for my hardware synth. If it didn't find it, it loaded the software speech driver and started speech-dispatcher. Maybe there's something in lsmod that actually indicates which driver is active.
