soft synth not working at all

[William Hubbs]

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Hi John,


> Hi.  I am using a git pull of speakup from April 13 and kernel
> 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 and the software speech is not working at all.  I
> have speakout builtin and soft as a module, but either echoing soft to
> /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth or modprobing the module
> speakup_soft loads the module, but mothing else happens.  Also,
> speechd-up says its trying to open the device in the old way and it
> then says it can't find /dev/softsynth .

Are you passing the start parameter to the module when you load it?  If
you are using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to load the soft synth
module, the line should look like:

speakup_soft start=1

Or, if you are loading it manually,

modprobe speakup_soft start=1

Then go ahead and run speechd-up.


- -- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh at gentoo.org
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