A question for Shane W about changing synths in Sarge

[Thomas Stivers]

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On 03/20/04  8:52 PM +0100, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi  speakup,
> 
>   I have used the Debian Sarge cd for installing on my computer. When
>   i had the installer up and running, i had my synthesizer selected as
>   it should. However after installing grub and Debian on my system i
>   get Accent SA as my synth even though i'm having an apollo synth, so
>   i need to change that. I have checked out various docs for Grub but
>   can't figure out how to change things by passing command line
>   parameters to the kernel.

In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst you will find a line that starts with
kopts or maybe it was koptions. This line will be commented out and
should stay that way, but if you add speakup_synth=xxx to the end of the
line and run update-grub then that commented out line will be coppied to
the places it is needed in menu.lst. 

>   If i can't get any help with this, is it easy to install Lilo and
>   make that work?

Yeah its pretty easy, but since most distros are switching to grub
learning it is probably a good investment for the future..

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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