speakup.synth= vs modprobe

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Thu Mar 26 15:09:12 EDT 2009


"John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I installed the 2.6.26 kernel from debian lenny along with the speakup 
> modules.  I modified my /boot/grub/menu.lst to use speakup.synth=ltlk as a 
> boot parameter. But I don't get speech during boot. If I log in after it 
> boots and type 'modprobe speakup_ltlk' then I get speech.
>
> Any explanation for this? Below is the boot stanza from my menu.lst.
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> title  Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-486
> root  (hd0,0)
> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-486 root=/dev/hda1 ro speakup.synth=ltlk
> initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486
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Hmm...
Modules are separate from kernel, so kernel parameter speakup.synth can't work if kernel doesn't ewen know what is speakup.
Add your proper speakup modules to some files to make the debian automatically load it.
I don't remember where you can do this.
Thanks.



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