specifying a synthe at the boot prompt

[Pete De Vasto]

OOPS!  Told you I was a newbie (smile).  Forgot to run LILO, once I did that
and rebooted, all's fine.

Thanks,
Pete De Vasto
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com>
To: <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: specifying a synthe at the boot prompt


> 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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>          John Covici
>          covici at ccs.covici.com
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