soft synth not working at all

[John covici]

What about echoing soft to  /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth ?  Is
that supposed to work -- I gathered from the logs that it was supposed
to work now.

on Friday 05/02/2008 William Hubbs(williamh at gentoo.org) wrote
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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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