RedHat 9 and Speakup, almost...

[Janina Sajka]

Itain't necessarily so. You can choose to compile the module for a synth
into the kernel, in which case it will talk from the git go just like it
always has.

On my DEC Alpha system that's exactly how it works. I just compiled a
2.4.21 kernel for this sytem, and that's what I did for my internal
Doubletalk card. But, on my portables, it's nice to think I can plug any
synth in and just reload a different driver instead of rebooting as we
had to under Speakup 1.x.

Adam Myrow writes:
> From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
> 
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > So, under your current circumstances, you will not have speech during
> > the boot or login process. Once in, however, you can launch Speakup as
> > follows:
> 
> Man, that's the real draw-back of modularizing Speakup.  For me, the major
> selling point of Speakup is its capability of speaking earlier in the boot
> process than any DOS or Windows screen reader.  I realize that this gets
> sacrificed for software speech, but I hope it never goes away as an
> option in Speakup for those of us fortunate enough to own hardware speech
> synthesizers.
> 
> 
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