[BRLTTY] brltty and Festival Lite

[Lars Bjørndal]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2006/04/21 at 15:35 +0200]
>
>>BRLTTY is in /bin, but festival is in /usr/bin,
>>which maybe is mounted later on.
>
> You can check this with the df command. If you give it a path, it'll show you
> where that path has been mounted from.

/usr is not mounted at the time BRLTTY is started.

>>I'm running FC4, and BRLTTY is started as the first statement in
>>/etc/rc.sysinit.
>
> A standard FC4 installation doesn't put /usr into a different partition. It's
> likely, though, that the sound subsystem hasn't been configured yet. This, in
> turn, may cause festival to get some kind of error which makes it just give up. 
> Can you get your system into this state and then see if there's a festival
> process running?

This is not a standard installation of FC4. On my installation /usr is
on a separate partition.

How can I then use speech when the system has started? Do I need to
killall and restart BRLTTY after startup?

Lars