<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <body> <div dir="auto"> I'm curious. Given this situation when it happens in future when someone fails to enable and start speakup would it be possible for an error message to speak on the sound card at substantial volume? When a bug got fixed enabling speakup to work in the kernel could the code that caused the error message to speak be removed as part of what happened when the kernel got updated with a working speakup piece in it? Such a feature would make what I do with Linux easier. If I heard a message like that, I would try installing fenrir as a stop gap measure and using that for console login. Though I can work in a graphical environment when speech is running things can happen to graphical environments that make them unuseable. With a console environment I'll have already logged in before running startx and bringing up the graphical environment and in that way I have a better chance my computer won't turn into a paperweight with only a graphical environment on it. </div></body> </html>