how to tell which synthesizer is active

[Gregory Nowak]

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How about a compromise? I propose leaving synth as is, and creating a
new file, /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth_active, which would be a
boolean. If the value is 1, the synth is active. If the value is 0,
the synth has timed out/prtscr was pressed to turn the synth off. This
way, synth can stay as is, and active could be checked in scripts, to
decide what action could be taken. So, for example, if synth is set to
bns, and active is set to 0, then you'd know that a hardware synth is
in use, but that it isn't attached. How does that sound, and could it
be implemented?

I too would like to do what John C wants to do. My solution is to have
the bns built in, so I can figure out what goes wrong before the
system is ready for me to login, and as a last step during boot up, I
switch to soft, regardless of if the bns is active or not. Soft is
always there, and if I need the bns, I can easily switch back to it
after login, but I agree that it would be nice to not have to do it
that way.

Greg


On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:46:30AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> We stopped probing because it was causing issues with some synthesizers
> and other hardware as I remember, so I don't see us re-implementing
> probing.
> 
> I might be able to set it to none if we time out, but the current design
> would mean that it would also be set to none if you hit print screen to
> turn off speakup, so I don't know if you want that either.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> William
> 
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