How do I get speakup and brltty to live happily on the same system with hardware synthesis

[John covici]

You can certainly let speakup load and in your init scripts test if
the synthesizer is none because it was not found and then do something
if this is true -- is this about what you want?  I do something like
this on my laptop where I may or may not have a serial synth -- if I
don't I run software speech using speakup.

on Wednesday 02/16/2005 Sean McMahon(smcmahon at usgs.gov) wrote
 > Ignore the obvious question, No I don't want them running of the same synthesis
 > at exactly the same time.  What I'm trying to develop is a system where one boot
 > option loads speakup with a bns and another loads brltty and would allow the
 > inclusion of software speech via emacspeak upon login.  The problem is that
 > brltty loads at somepoint before login, so I'd have to change the way the init
 > scripts work.  Is it possible to change the startup scripts to say if a device
 > is connected to and active on the serial port then don't load brltty else load
 > brltty?  Will I have to specifically change the init scripts if I configure
 > brltty with one braille display like the alva satellite then configure speech in
 > speakup to work off of a bns?  This system only has one serial port.Where else
 > should I be looking for info?
 > 
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