Boot Parameters with Debian

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:02:20PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Well this might call for a little egg on my face:).  I didn't realize
> I needed to load both modules at the same time to be able to switch
> between them.  I always thought echoing the synth name would cause the
> loading and unloading of respective modules.

That was true in pre-git versions of speakup, but not anymore.

> I
> experimented earlier with modprobing of speakup_soft without any
> special paramaters and my machine appeared to lockup entirely so at
> that point I was a bit nervous about loading additional speakup
> modules.  

Yeah, there was a point during git history where softsynth could cause
some kernel panics. However, according to the git changelog, those
problems have been fixed in the latest versions of speakup.

> 
> In the past (before 2.6.22), I was used to having spkout hard coded
> into the kernel and loading softsynth via modules and could always
> switch between them.  Now that speakup is completely modular, I wasn't
> exactly sure how things worked.

You can still do it that way, (I do), but you have to build your own
kernel, and patch it with speakup of course.

> My one remain point of clarification then is concerning the softsynth
> module.  If I wanted to load software speech first and use either
> espeakup connector or speechd-up, do I need to always start the module
> with start=0 and then get espeakup or speechd-up loaded as soon as
> possible there after? When I had tried loading soft without specifying
> that, I had experienced lock-ups as mentioned earlier.

Until you upgrade to the latest speakup from git, which is supposed to
fix all these problems, I'd recommend that you modprobe speakup_soft
with start=0, and then echo soft to synth_name, and then start
espeakup/speechd-up/whatever your interface to speakup's softsynth
driver is.

Greg


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