changing speakup speed in console revisited

[Jason White]

Gregory Nowak  <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:00:18PM -0400, Jason Miller wrote:

>> * 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?

This is exactly what will happen during an upgrade: the module is already
running when the new version is installed.