-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hmm. This is very odd. If USB keyboard support is enabled in your bios, it should actually work independent of a kernel driver until the kernel driver is loaded. At that time, control is transfered to the kernel driver, so there should be no delay before you are able to shutup speakup. The keymap, as far as I know, should also be loaded by the time Speakup starts speaking. I have plugged my USB keyboard into both my desktop and my laptop, both with no delay between the time Speakup starts speaking and the time I can shut it up. But maybe the problem is caused by the fact that you are using Speakup compiled into your kernel and I am using it as modules. It is possible that there is a break in USB keyboard support between the time the kernel image starts to load and the time the Speakup modules are loaded that I am unable to detect because my Speakup modules are being loaded slightly later in the boot process. In that case, you may want to reconfigure your kernel with HID support compiled in. HID is the kernel name for USB keyboard/mouse support. HTH at least a little, Lorenzo - -- Your society will be sought by people of taste and refinement. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD/cz0G9IpekrhBfIRAqZTAJ0SimxeGHu6FEVrYO0x3Dd/62iUKACfQtlv gMyvQeNU237RpynIuVtgIhY= =/40y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
