specifying a synthe at the boot prompt

[John Covici]

Did you run lilo again after the modifications?


"Pete De Vasto" <pdevasto at incyte.com> writes:

> Hi again:
> 
> Taking this one step further, from kind of a newbie who realizes this must
> have been asked before..
> 
> I started out wiht an Accent SA synthesizer, now I'd rather use my
> DoubleTalk LT, so I went to /etc/lilo.conf and modified the last line to
> read:
> 
> append="speakup_synth=ltlk"
> 
> Now, when I reboot, the DoubleTalk LT does come up talking, but the very
> first words I hear from it are that it found an Accent-SA synth, and if I go
> to /proc/speakup to try and tweak settings like rate, volume and the like,
> they don't seem to have any effect.  Is lilo.conf really the file I need to
> modify here, or is there something else.  By the way, this is RedHat 7 we're
> working with.
> 
> Thanks for all the help.
> Pete
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Nestrud" <ccn at uark.edu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: specifying a synthe at the boot prompt
> 
> 
> > I looked at speakup.c, and here's what should be a complete list of
> > supported synthesizers and their ID's. It might help someone looking
> > through the archives later.
> > The option is speakup_synth=ID where ID is listed below. You
> > can also use speakup_ser=number where number corresponds to the serial
> > port your synthesizer is connected to; 0 for com1 in dos, 1 for com2, 2
> > for com3, and 3 for com4. If this number isn't specified, speakup will
> > probe these ports looking for the synthesizer.
> >
> > Accent PC: acntpc
> > Accent SA: acntsa
> > Apolo: apolo
> > Audapter: audptr
> > Braille 'n Speak, and other such Blazie products: bns
> > DecTalk External (older model): decext
> > DecTalk PC (newer model): dectlk
> > DoubleTalk PC (internal): dtlk
> > LiteTalk/DoubleTalk LT (external): ltlk
> > Speakout: spkout
> > Transport: txprt
> > This list is current as of speakup version 0.10.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:06:15PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote:
> > > Try:
> > > speakup_synth=<key_word_for_your_synth>
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brian Moore wrote:
> > >
> > > > greetings all.  wish this list was archived.  was looking for the
> syntax to
> > > > give speakup a synthe on the command line at the boot prompt
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I know this came up before but couldn't try it then.
> > > >
> > > > any info would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > thanks.  Brian.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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