I love it!!

[Janina Sajka]

I usually hate these "me too" messages. But, I just couldn't resist this
time. I love it too. I have realy missed having speech during boot up,
especially on my laptop where things change so much because I use it in
so many different settings.

William F. Acker writes:
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> Hi,
> 
>      I'm running on all but the last checkin.  It goes into the initrd 
> just fine.  It's good to hear the boot messages again.  Did you know that 
> the tty is still accessible by whatever cares to write to it?  That should 
> make the emacspeak folks very happy in deed.
> 
>      One thing that I don't know how to feel about.  until David's 
> rewrite,  the driver never initialized the Audapter.  This was fine with 
> me, because it can be controlled quite well from the front panel.  Now, as 
> of today, it's back in that state.  I like the old and current behavior, 
> even though it's broken.  Shouldn't the driver initialize the synth?
> 
>           Thanks and 73.
> -- 
> 
> 
> Bill in Denver
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Janina Sajka
Email: janina at rednote.net		
Phone: (202) 408-8175

Director, Technology Research and Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
http://www.afb.org

Chair, Accessibility Work Group
Free Standards Group
http://accessibility.freestandards.org