yasr is not a kernel-based screen reader, so it cannot start talking before the kernel finishes initializing. It may be possible to have the kernel start it and have it invoke sysinstall (which I believe substitutes for init on the FreeBSD installation media, but I am not sure about this), but I have never tried to do it. Also, if you are using an internal synthesizer, then FreeBSD may not support it. --Michael Gorse / ICQ:22583968 / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Brent Harding wrote: > Does this yasr program work like speakup, right from the install? One thing > I heard good about freebsd is that it's kernel configuration probes the > system and detects most stuff, maybe not this 3com performance pro modem > that runs com5, and won't run in linux for some reason, but I heard a lot > of people are using it for some reason.