Red Hat 8 with Speakup

Thomas Stivers stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
Wed Nov 27 07:53:14 EST 2002


On 11/27/02  7:33 AM -0500, Matt wrote:
> Thanks Ed.
> 
> The next question is should I put the
> 
> speakup_synth=dectlk
> 
> at the end of my current append line or should I make a new line?  Lilo was 
> never one of my strong points with Linux--I've trashed a number of 
> lilo.conf files in an attempt to install a new kernel.

You want to append the speakup_synth parameter to your append line. Don't
make a new one.

> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> At 10:47 PM 11/26/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi Matt, possibly somebody has already answered this question for you as 
> >I'm reading mail I fetched around 9 tonight and generally the gang on here 
> >are pretty quick answering things.
> >Two suggestions.
> >1. Check to see that the append statement in /etc/lilo.conf includes the 
> >necessary declaration foryour particular synthesizer.
> >It should look something like:
> >Append="speakup_synth=your_synth's_key_word"
> >2. If you're getting boot up messages but no speech at the login prompt 
> >check to make sure you have run level 3 in:
> >/etc/inittab
> >Good luck and hth.
> >
> > At 07:17 PM 11/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >>        Hi,
> >>
> >>I just finished installing Red Hat 8 with Speakup during the 
> >>install.  That worked great.  Maybe I missed something in the 
> >>documentation, but Speakup does not load during bootup now.  How do I fix 
> >>this?  Do I need to edit Lilo (that's what I am going to do probably) or 
> >>is there something else?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Matt
> >>
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