Dectalk pc working

[Janina Sajka]

I don't think you need to load speakupmain as loading the synth driver
should pull it in as a dependency. That's the point of modprobe.

Also, you m ight want to build an initrd with decpc so that it will talk
during the boot like Speakup 1.x does.


Joseph Norton writes:
> From: Joseph Norton <jenorton at chartertn.net>
> 
> Well, got the DECtalk pc working.
> 
> Here's how I did it in case any of you want to know.
> 
> I got the latest cvs version of speakup and compiled the kernel
> modularizing speakup and its various modules (including the decpc module).
> 
> Then, I did a make modules and make modules_install and make bzImage (not
> necessarily in that order).  Then, I installed it and ran lilo to tell
> lilo about the new kernel.
> 
> When I booted up, everything was silent.  I logged in as root, changed to
> the directory where I had the dtload program, ran dtload and DECtalk said
> it was initialized.
> 
> Then, I did the following:
> 
> modprobe speakupmain
> echo decpc > /proc/synth_name
> 
> and it came up talking after that.
> 
> Here is my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file where I put these commands.  Any reason
> why this shouldn't work? I just booted up with this and it seemed to work
> all right.
> Here is the file:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # /etc/rc.d/rc.local:  Local system initialization script.
> #
> # Put any local setup commands in here:
> /usr/local/lib/dec_pc/dtload
> modprobe speakupmain
> echo decpc > /proc/speakup/synth_name
> 
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