safely unloading speakup modules

[Deedra Waters]

Hmm, echoing the synth name seems to cause the kernel to freeze or panic,
can't tell which. Is there a different way you're supposed to switch
speakup modules?


On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:26:06 -0700
> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: safely unloading speakup modules
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> To switch synths on the fly, you should be able to simply echo the new
> name to /proc/speakup/synth_name.  I understand the modules are
> supposed to switch for you.  If this doesn't work then do a 'modprobe
> -r <synth_module_name>' to unload and I'm quite sure that echoing the
> name of the new synth to synth_name should auto load the respective
> module.
> 
> The soft synth device can be built by doing
> mknod softsynth c 10 26
> The ls -l entry should look like this:
> crw-r--r--    1 root     root      10,  26 Dec 21 12:29 /dev/softsynth
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:33:42AM -0600, Deedra Waters wrote:
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> > Someone told me how to do this once, but I seem to have lost the mail on
> > it.
> >
> > How do you safely switch between speakup modules with out causing the
> > kernel to panic?
> > Also, how do you make the device that soft_synth requires?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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