another attempt to use speakup

[Kerry Hoath]

I seem to recall in newer speakup that you separate speakup and synth with a 
period
speakup.synth=dectlk

reguarding your building of modules under ubuntu 8.10;
there is nothing running on that port that might upset the dectalk?

Note that speakup will not function inside x, you will need to switch to a 
text console with whatever the key sequence is for this.
left control, left alt f1 seems to spring to mind.
Speakup talked when the system was going down because X windows exited and 
messages were coming up on the text console.

Speakup will not talk in gnome terminal, x-terminal or anything that is GUI 
or when the screen is in graphics mode.
It talks at a text login prompt, and in applications run on a text console.
Sorry if you allready knew all this but perhaps that helps a bit.
Just because you modprobe speakup in a gnome terminal does not mean the 
machine will start talking until you switch to a text console.

If I modprobe speakup modules over a telnet session; the box in question 
won't talk till I hit keys on its keyboard in the text console.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Noblick" <brunobrook at columbus.rr.com>
To: "speakup info" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:59 PM
Subject: another attempt to use speakup


> Hello all,
>
> I have pulled much of what I have done here from threads on this list but 
> then I took a few leaps of faith on my own to get to a goal that has only 
> very recently come into focus.  I will now explain.
>
> I started with Ubuntu 8.04 and just recently upgraded to 8.10.
> Then I opened a shell session with gnome-terminal.
> Then I tried a variant on Kerry's instructions to get speakup working.  I 
> built speakup as suggested, successfully.  Since I am using a DECTalk, I 
> skipped the espeakup and did the modprobe and specified speakup_dectlk 
> instead of speakup_soft.
> It told me that it worked.
> But then it was silent until I shut the computer down.
> Then it talked while the computer was going down.
> I had hoped that it would come up talking , even if only up to the login 
> prompt, But it didn't.
> Then I connected using ssh and had similar results when I did the modprobe 
> command.
> Then I saw the thread from just a few days ago about grml.  I downloaded 
> and created the CD, found and read over the cheat sheet and attempted to 
> boot with it and specified grml speakup_synth=dectlk.
> I couldn't get that to work.
> All I am trying to do now is get something to work with speakup.
> I like the idea of a live CD That would allow me to get the best of the 
> command line interface when I want it while allowing me to have the gnome 
> environment.
> I feel like I am close to it but I am apparently missing one or more 
> steps.
> Any thoughts are welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bruce Noblick
>
>
>
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