Boot Parameters with Debian

[Steve Holmes]

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Hey, that is really informative.  I see where that got added to
/etc/modules.  I commented that line out which originally loaded
speakup_spkout module.  Now when I boot, I could manually load
speakup_soft and follow immediately with espeakup to get things
going.  But once I do that, I still cannot use talkwith script to switch
synths on the fly.  For whatever reason, echoing the new synth name
won't stick in the parameter variable, nor will it load the respective
module.  The talkwith script echos none to the synth variable and that
takes effect and speakup stops bu the only synth that I can echo back
in and successfully launch is the same one that I previously
unloaded.  It's like the modules aren't unloading or something.

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 03:12:45AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm deleting your long post.  I very much doubt that your boot problem  
> is related to your initrd, but you could look at  
> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.  Instead, what's in your /etc/modules?   
> You should see something like speakup_ltlk and a line that it's added by  
> the Debian installer.  What I would do is delete the speakup line from  
> /etc/modules, move it to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, rebuild your  
> initrd and reboot.  To rebuild your initrd, do:
>
> update-initramfs -u
>
> That should automatically rerun lilo as well.  The advantage is that you  
> get speech a lot earlier in the boot process.  The disadvantage is that  
> it makes no difference with software speech anyway.  Note that doing it  
> this way means you don't pass parms on the speakup module command line  
> such as your synth name because the speakup_ltlk module pulls in speakup  
> as a dependency.  I personally don't use software speech so I can't  
> comment on if you load multiple synth modules, such as one for software  
> and one for hardware.  I generally only use hardware speech because  
> software speech eats so much memory and sounds bad to my ear by 
> comparison.
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