how to tell which synthesizer is active

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I want to do this only at boot time, but this sounds like it could have
a lot of false hits.  I still think the synth could be set to none when
this happens -- any reason why not?

Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You could grep the output of dmesg.  Speakup always writes messages
> when a synth has timed out.  Perhaps something like this would work:
> 
> dmesg | tail | grep -i deactivated
> 
> You could run a cron job every 30 minutes or so which could check and
> switch to software speech.  By using tail, it only shows the most
> recent messages so you shouldn't get old results once you've switched.
> You could also have your script check if software speech is already
> being used and just abort if it is.
> 
> On 9/6/2009 9:56 PM, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi.  In the old days, even if I had a synthesizer built in the kernel, I
> > could check and if speakup had deactivated because the synth was not
> > connected, the name would be changed to none.  I would like to be able
> > to do this now because I want to automatically switch to a software
> > synth if my hardware one is not connected.  However, the name of the
> > synth remains tthe same making it more difficult to do this.
> >    
> 
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