The initrd idea for speakup is a great one because it should do what you discribe. It might even be possible to build enough of a kernel in initrd to support a thumb drive that could augment memory storage for systems that have less than 512 megabytes of RAM. I have a couple of those myself that are still otherwise good systems but don't have a lot of spare RAM. If speakup could be put in to initrd, it might also have a home in embedded systems which opens up a whole world of possibilities. Martin Devon Stewart writes: > I guess including Speakup in the initrd would solve this? Modules that > are loaded in the initrd are maintained when booting the rest of the > system, as far as I know, so once speakup is started everything should > speak from boot.
