boot freezing before Speech comes up

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:20:06PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> There are two solutions.
> 1. When the system starts loading, hit the silence until next keypress
> key (I thing numpad equals).
> 2. You can set the synth to none in the default in the kernel config,
> then just have in a start-up script (before speechd-up) "echo sftsyn
> > /proc/speakup/synth_name" (assuming sftsyn is the synth used).
> 
> There is a third, but very undesirable, leave the system, it will load
> eventually as the emptying of the device will happen over time, but this
> will take a long time (I think this will happen).
> 

Actually, there is a fourth solution. Put

speakup_quiet=1

on the command-line in your boot loader, which will start speakup with
the synth silenced. I do think though that the second option is the
best choice in this case.

Greg




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