Software synths

[Darragh]

at the moment speakup is in modules in fedora.

well, I assume it as as to run it I type
modprobe speakup_apollo

Darragh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Software synths


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> at the risk of being helpful, Janina Sajka delivered up the following on
Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:13:13AM -0500,
> > You were on a roll until you said "usb."
> >
> > Darragh writes:
> *SNIP*
> > >
> > > I'd gladly fork out the money if I could find a decent hardware synth
which
> > > was easy to listen to: was powered by USB, was very responsive and had
an
> > > external volume control.
> > >
> The problem with usb is this.
> the usb subsystem don't get initialized until well into the boot
> process.
> after the filesystems are mounted and the modules are loaded well that
> might not be true if you have usb compiled into the kernel as opposed to
> a module,
> however, it's still a good while before it comes up. so if you have a
> kernel panic, you're not going to know about it until well, never.
> because your synth won't be sitting there spewing out messages you
> really need to hear.
> the alternative is you get in there and code us a nice usb driver for
> speakup or see if you can have it address the current ones and hack the
> tripple talk for us so on so forth rant rant rant,
> or if you don't want speech right from go to woe compile speakup as
> modules.
>
>
> - -- 
> Shaun Oliver
>
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