Problems with starting speakup, any chance of solving?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

This is a setup that works fine here,
where I am using arch linux with the latest kernel.

I have not put any reference to speakup in the master configuration file, /etc/rc.conf.
Instead, I have these lines at the end of my /etc/rc.local file:

#uncomment next lines to use speakup
modprobe -a speakup speakup_soft speakup_ltlk
talkwith soft espeakup
speakupconf load
# end of rc.local


Then, I specify some parameters for the speakup modules by adding these two
lines to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:

options speakup_soft start=0
options speakup_ltlk ser=0 start=0

Note that speakup is not compiled into the kernel,
but is mentioned on the modprobe line along with the two drivers I sometimes use.
The options for speakup_ltlk include start=0, since the other driver,
speakup_soft, is activated by default. Hope this helps some.

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