[gentoo-accessibility] Odd Error

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hi all,

When I run espeakup at a terminal, I get the following error:

Unable to access soft synth device. No such file or directory.

I am using the Gentoo-sources, and the only configuration I modified was to
give myself sound support and get the CONFIG_SPEAKUP and
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SOFFT in my kernel. When I run zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -I
CONFIG_SPEAKUP, the needed modules are showing up as =y. But what is wrong
with the softsynth error, and how do I fix it?