interesting experiment.

[Alex Snow]

What also would be a good ida would have pcspeaker speach until alsa or oss
loaded, then swap it for software.  So then if you got a kernel panic or
some other bootup error, you could here what it was.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: interesting experiment.


> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:
>
> > Let's be realistic, most modern boards have soundcards on them,
> > and something half decent can be had for $10US so
> > gone are the days of pc-speaker and parallel port dongles
>
> True, but the issue we were talking about is the fact that sound usually
> isn't set up on an installation CD and many people don't initially know
> how to get it working in Linux.  Also, if they choose Alsa or kernel
> modules, sound isn't ready until some time after the bootup process has
> started.  The whole point of a PC speaker driver would be to provide
> speech to somebody who doesn't have a hardware synth and wants to get
> Linux up and running.  Granted, I don't think it's real practical, but
> that was what was being discussed as I understand it.
>
>
>
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