Which hardware synthesizer to buy?

[John covici]

Could not you have an option to accept that change of numbering, and
let the user decide whether he wants that sort of thing?  I thought
there were other issues involved.  Since I always built the kernels
the same I got used to the numbering and let it go -- or what I was
thinging of was to have theearly boot work as before and do a
switcheru once the serial driver came up so the speakup port would get
its number again.  Does that make any sense?


on Monday 04/13/2009 William Hubbs(w.d.hubbs at gmail.com) wrote
 > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:22:56AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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 > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:47:51AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
 > > > Even with a hardware synth we have nowhere near a power-up to shutdown
 > > > solution like we used to have.
 > > 
 > > I must say I was surprised when I read that. I've been using speakup
 > > since the 0.09 days, and haven't noticed any less bootup, or shutdown
 > > messages than before. I will admit though that I don't follow bootup
 > > and shutdown messages from start to finish, unless I have a specific
 > > reason to do so. As far as I know, having speakup and my synth driver
 > > built into the kernel, still gives me speech from what sounds like
 > > early on in the boot process, until the machine powers off, just like
 > > it always used to, or so it has seemed to me up until now. So, what
 > > have I overlooked, and am not aware of?
 > 
 > Greg,
 > 
 > you are correct about having speakup and the synth driver built in
 > giving you speech early in the boot process.  However, it is not as
 > early as it was with the older kernels, and I personally do not know of
 > a way that we will be able to come up that early at this point.
 > 
 > We made this change because of a bug that would cause the serial ports
 > that speakup was not using to be numbered incorrectly, for example, if
 > your synthesizer was on ttyS0 and you started speakup built in, ttyS1
 > would be renumbered to ttyS0, but it would not be renumbered if you did
 > not start speakup or if it was not built in.  This was caused because
 > speakup was being started before the kernel's serial driver.
 > 
 > For newer kernels (I believe 2.6.26 or later when the accessibility
 > drivers first appeared), we are installing as an accessibility driver if
 > you build speakup into the kernel, and we are starting late enough that
 > this is not an issue.
 > 
 > Let me know if that makes sense.
 > 
 > William
 > 
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