wait a minute! doesn't the kernel these days have support for the auto
loading of modules?
if that's the case, wouldn't that resolve the issue or is the kernel
module loader something that comes up a way into the kernel boot process?
Shaun..
I never made a mistake in my life.
I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
-- Lucy Van Pelt
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> And how would that be since you can't load modules
> at startup right away?
> Speakup would need to be in the kernel
> with the *option* of choosing y or m during make config.
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:08:22PM +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> > Yes, if Speakup were a module you would get speech right from the beginning
> > like now.
> >
> > Saqib
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: Modularisation
> >
> >
> > > I would only hope that if modulerized that speakup could still speak at
> > > the beginning like it does now. Lately, I've found that info to be of
> > > extreme value while setting up a new machine and new hardware
> > > configurations. That's something I particularly dislike about windows;
> > > screen readers are applications and must wait til most of the operating
> > > system is already running before it can talk.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > While I think that it is good that parts of Speakup has been included in
> > the kernel, I would still like to see Speakup be a kernel module so that it
> > can be added/removed at will. What do people think of this?
> > > >
> > > > Secondly, I personally don't like the fact that one must change the
> > keymaps to use Speakup. Could Speakup be changed so that it monitors all
> > keypresses, and if it wants to deal with them it does so and then all other
> > keys are passed through? This would, in my opinion, be a far better
> > solution.
> > > >
> > > > Finally I would like to raise the issue of security. Many of my friends
> > at universities in the UK use Emacspeak rather than Speakup purely because
> > our universities consider patching every kernel both a security risk and a
> > hastle. On the security side I also know of at least one distribution that
> > refuses to include Speakup because of it being a security risk.
> > > >
> > > > Any comments welcome. If there's anything I can do to help rectify the
> > possible flaws above let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Saqib
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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