Not so fast. Maybe you're correct, and maybe not. Are you familiar with the ide-scsi module? When does that one get loaded--if it's to be loaded? I cite ide-scsi as an example to you. Sayhing "later than the kernel" covers a lot of time, and pretty much the entire stack. Lorenzo Prince writes: > From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net> > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175