booting with speakup installed, with no synth attached

[Brent Harding]

The modules idea will stink too, as then we'll need sighted assistance to
install linux. Especially if the synth were dumb enough to speak something
like, put changes to sendmail config in /etc/sendmail.config even though
it's really sendmail.cf, or other abbreviations that expand out, like etc.
At 05:05 PM 9/8/00 +1100, you wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>
>> I believe, if it doesn't speak after you plug in synth, you could press
>> insert+enter several times to get kernel restart the Doubletalk synth.
>
>Nada.  don't think so.  The way I understand it, and I'm surprised Kirk
>hasn't commented on this yet, is that currently speakup will only load IF
>the synth is detected at boot-up.  If it is not, speakup is bi-passed for
>the entire session.  What you say WILL work IF the synth is detected, then
>becomes unavailable later and is then re-attached.
>
>Having said all that, the mods set for speakup development which would see
>the ability to load synth modules should solve this one.
>
>Geoff.
>
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>Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
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