Hi. I have brltty in all consoles also. It starts up with an init script before login, so there is only one process running. Kenny On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:23:54PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Well, I would expect the canonical answer to come from Kirk himself, but > I would expect it's more than just the boot up messages. There's also > the issue of ubiquitous availability, and persistence. > > In other words, you get Speakup across any and all consoles that you > might open. In my case that's 24 consoles (or 23 on the machines where I > also have a GUI Desktop). Try that from user space. I don't think it > could be done. > > Then there's persistence--meaning that your access continues to function > in the face of whatever might happen to an application you're running. > Not only kernel panics will talk, but any application gone awry can > often, nay usually, be brought under control from a second console. > > Sina Bahram writes: > > Hi Janina, > > > > The point is one of personal curiocity, questions about software > > engineering, and just general interest in why. > > > > I really would like to know if something like this is possible, and if the > > only reason for having it in the kernel is for boot messages. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup