Hi, Joshua Lambert, le Wed 04 Oct 2006 02:33:27 -0400, a ?crit : > I have noticed that kernel pre-emption wreaks havoc with software speech, > causing symptoms like spelling out commands or even the output of commands > like ls letter by letter along with slow responsiveness. I am trying to > find a way to turn off kernel pre-emption on the fly if that is even > possible so that distributers of livecd linux flavors can still keep their > fast x performance and we can have our accessibility. Is it possible to > do this, or would there need to be a separate, non-pre-emptable kernel in > a distro? There is currently no way to disable preemption on the fly. And I doubt Linux people will add the possibility. That said, this shouldn't be hard to have speakup work nicely on a preemptible kernel. I should just be a matter of adding preempt_disable() / preempt_enable() calls around speakup code... Samuel
