changing speakup speed in console revisited

[Gregory Nowak]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:00:18PM -0400, Jason Miller wrote:
> Now the other issue, I was asked why I'm not using espeakup in the
> console. The reason is this. When I do a
> sudo apt-get install alsa-utils speakup-tools espeakup
> I get alsa-utils and speakup-tools are already the newest versions.
> When it gets to espeakup, I get this:
> 
> Setting up espeakup (1:0.71-1) ...
> update-rc.d: warning: espeakup start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do
> not match LSB Default-Start values (S)
> update-rc.d: warning: espeakup stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do
> not match LSB Default-Stop values (none)

That's ok, don't worry about it.

> * Starting Speakup/espeak connector espeakup  Unable to open
> the softsynth device: Device or resource busy
> [fail]
> invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing espeakup (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> espeakup
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 

Do you have the speakup_soft kernel module loaded when you try
installing espeakup?

Greg


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