I created an install pendrive from the latest minimal install cd iso image. I then ran this command at boot prompt: gentoo-nofb doscsi slowusb speakup.synth=soft acpi=on The computer booted properly, but without speakup being run, it didn't talk. The livecd claimed that espeakup is unable to open the softsynth device. I thought that means the install cd can't find speakup modules, so it didn't load it and that caused espeakup to be unable to start. I searched through the squashfs image and i discovered that the image's /etc/init.d/autoconfig script tries to load speakup modules at it was requested, but i also discovered that modules are not present in the filesystem. That caused them to not load and made espeakup unable to run and talk. Sound and espeak synthesizer itself works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the cdrom with speakup.synth=soft parameter 2. just wait and see that it doesn't talk Actual Results: Espeakup tries to run, but it prints to the screen that it is unable to open /dev/softsynth device, so it doesn't talk. speakup modules are not loaded. Expected Results: Speakup modules should be present and loaded, espeakup should run and speakup should then talk as requested.
This is fixed in the current x86 and amd64 isos, which were built on 2/22. Thanks for the report.
