On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:13:09PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > you are correct about having speakup and the synth driver built in > giving you speech early in the boot process. However, it is not as > early as it was with the older kernels, and I personally do not know of > a way that we will be able to come up that early at this point. As long as it comes up speaking before where the drives are fsck'ed, so if there is something wrong detected, it can be heard. That's always been my own main worry. Michael