Hi: IMHO, getting sound at boot time is not the major problem, though it is at present with ALSA (but I'm sure something could be done about that). The problem is getting at the module so itt could be loaded off a file system ... if the synth were a module. What if it were small enough to fit in the kernel itself? Wacky idea, but it may end up small enough. At present, rsynth is pretty small (though it does use 4 dynamically linked libs so it's hard to tell how big its actual size is). Geoff.
