speakup.synth= vs modprobe

Erik Heil eheil at sdf.lonestar.org
Fri Mar 27 11:28:19 EDT 2009



Hi their.
In Debian, their is something called modconf, and also their is Module
Assistant. I have not personally tried these tools, but wouldn't they be
helpful  in this situation? Just my two sense.
--Erik

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, al Sten-Clanton wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:06:54 -0400
> From: al Sten-Clanton <Albert.E.Sten_Clanton at verizon.net>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: RE: speakup.synth= vs modprobe
>
> "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."
>
> Does this mean that, unlike with, say, Fedora 9 or the earlier versions of
> GRML, you can't have speakup available early in the boot process?  I was
> able to work around this for Fedora 10 using mkinitrd, but I couldn't find
> that program when I tried this with the latest GRML.  I ask only in part out
> of curiosity.  Thanks!
>
> Al
>
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