FW: software speech for speakup

[Stephen Dawes]

There appears to be a problem with my out going mail, and the reply to the
attached message did not make to the list.  So I have chosen to resend this
message to the list for all to see.

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Kirk, your arrogance is totally uncalled for.  I was just expressing what
would be nice to have knowing what current limitations are.  Perhaps you
should come down from your lofty perch, and join the rest of us.  After all,
it is nice to have ideas that sometimes make the difference, and it is
people like yourself who think that there wy85 don't stink, and think they
know everything that, that make people think twice before sharing them with
the group.

I suggest to you, that if you are all knowing and such a fantastic
programmer, that you tackle the problem for all of us, instead of shooting
our ideas down.

Maybe, just maybe, I have just called your bluff, and you are not that all
knowing demi-god that you want us all to believe that you are!

So, in the immortal words of Thumper, "If you can't say something nice, then
don't say anything at all!"




Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca




-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Wood [mailto:cpt.kirk at 1tree.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 3:08 PM
To: Stephen Dawes
Subject: RE: software speech for speakup


On Wed, 16 May 2001, Stephen Dawes wrote:
> When it happens, I will be right there to test it out.  However, I don't
> want to loose the current level of speech during boot time.  I would think
> that there must be a way to launch the sound as part of the kernel boot
> process so that a module could be launched to provide soft speech.

Well, I thought we weren't considering speech at start of boot. There is a
way Stephen. Go learn to program and re-write the entire kernel from
scratch. That is the only way. If you know much about computers this makes
sense. The sound card can not possibly be used until such time as a driver
is loaded.

Now with that limitation in mind, I don't see how you can ask for anything
more then speech when sound becomes available. This is relatively late in
the boot process for good reason. The first is that you really should
initialize the hardware used to get to the card first. Also, keep in mind
that sound is not considered a critical piece of the equation by the vast
majority of users.

Soft speech at start of boot will never happen. Even if you got every
blind person in the world to ask for this feature, it wouldn't create
enough demand for the project. It is best to not ask for the undoable.

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net

Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.