development questions

[Gregory Nowak]

Look at /proc/speakup, and play with the files there. It should give you an idea of how it works.

For example, to find out what your volume setting is, do the following without the quotes:
"cat /proc/speakup/volume"

To change the volume, say to 4, do:
"echo 4 >/proc/speakup/volume"
. Hth.
Greg


On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:09:50AM -0500, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:
> Is there any documentation explaining how to change speakup speech
> parameters?
> 
>  We don't use loadspk/dumpspk anymore.  That
> > functionally is totally handled by the /proc filesystem these days.  I
> > am pretty sure the tutorial states that the actual declarations are in
> > speakup.h.  Which is where they are.  There was also an article I
> > wrote a few years ago about how to write functions to be included but
> > I don't seem to be able to find it.  What functions do you want added?
> > How much experience do you have kernel coding?  I am not trying to
> > discourage you but there are things which will bite you in the ass if
> > you aren't good and familiar with kernel issues.  We can always use
> > extra hands though so if you're willin to put in the work it will be
> > nice having you on board.  I also recommend you get on the reflector
> > if that is the case.  If you don't know about the reflector, then I
> > recommend you read the web site at linux-speakup.org.  It would have
> > told you the lt was covered as well.
> >
> >   Kirk
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> > phone: (519) 661-3061
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
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