Because keyboard and mouse support is provided by the BIOS and it is *only* keyboard and mouse support. As soon as the kernel activates any USB support the keyboard and mouse support provided by the bios is turned off. If you do not compile support in for usb keyboard, you loose your console when USB support loads. Also, the support required is for USB Serial support something the kernel does not support at boot. Until speakup is modularized and there is some hook to the USB serial driver you are out of luck. If you think USB is simple and straight forward from an interface perspective you are dead wrong :-) Before USB became so popular back in 98 we called it the useless Serial Bus since until win98 it wasn't as usable. Sure there was 95OSR2.5 and the USB suplement for 95 but they weren't as stable as the 98SE usb stack. Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:48:39PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Kirk and all, > > Since that works, then could the code be extended to run it through the usb port as well? > The kernels work with usb keyboards and mice if core support is built-in, so why not a synth. > Greg > > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:06:40PM -0500, Jim Ruby wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just wanted to report that the triple talk usb when using the serial cable is found by using the ltlk synth. I'm having a few other problems I'm working on at this point so will test further when I get redhad up and > > running a little better, now I need to get some learning under my belt. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net alternatives: kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547
