Kernel modules are loaded later than the kernel itself. Unless there is a buffer in the kernel to keep track of the console text before the module is loaded, it won't catch all the text from the beginning. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Janina Sajka staggered into view and mumbled: > Lorenzo Prince writes: > > > > ... A modularized speakup [...] would lack some of the things we > > have come to love about Speakup, such as being able to hear all the boot > > messages or to scroll back the console through them. > > > So says you. Do you know this for a fact, or are you supposing this? Care to explain? > > > You did state it as fact. > > Janina > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >