changing volume at the speakup level

[Steve Holmes]

These /proc/speakup files are special files.  You need to send the value
you want to the file like this:
echo "5" >/proc/speakup/volume
It may sound cryptic but as far as I know, the only way.  You can't really
edit those system files.

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, djc wrote:

> I go to proc/speakup and I'm running redHat7.1 and when I go to the volume
> and go to edit the volume as it's set to 5 and I'd prefer it a bit louder I
> tell pico to write and it gives me an error telling me that the volume is
> from 0 to 9 but it won't write it for one reason or another. This is at the
> root level. Is there something special I need to do please? Also when I
> change this number is it spose to have a slash before it or anything like
> that/ I'm not yet fluent in working speakup so I don't know some things
> about it yet.
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