Boot Parameters with Debian

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Steve,

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 03:03:28PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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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.
> 

You should not want your modules to unload. On my system, I load two
speakup modules in /etc/modules, speakup_ltlk and speakup_soft, using
the parameter "start=0". The talkwith script switches between the ltlk
and the espeakup/espeak systems fine, no unloading or reloading of
modules. 

Chuck



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