Well, now you've gone and done it. You are going to make me admit my stupidity for everyone to see and hear! We have developed a usb driver for the 2.4.x kernels which is a standard device driver like the dtlk driver under the character devices. We don't have it for the 2.6.x kernels yet although James Axler is working on one at Access Solutions. I was trying to figure out how to modify speakup to be able to talk to standard devices instead of special devices because I thought that was what was expected by the kernel hacker community. I found out about two weeks ago that was not was expected and in fact is verboden. So now I need to write speakup device drivers to handle the usb synths such as the TrippleTalk and DECTalk usb synths. I have not started working on that yet because I'm trying to get the git repository of speakup working as well as a bunch of other projects at work. I plan on getting to that as soon as I can find time. I feel like an idiot for spending so much time over the past few years trying to manage something which turned out to be very difficult and wasn't even necessary. Like I've said before I often am woefully ignorant about kernel hacking. I think though before I start working on the usb drivers I want to get the smp compliant portions of speakup working and some other clean up stuff like moving speakup to /sys instead of /proc. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
