Hi Mario and all. That's interesting; my available in testing says it's 2.99.5 that's available (/var/lib/dpkg/available) and I update and upgrade regularly. will check out why that info isn't there. actually, now that I remember, the reason I had so much trouble at the time i tried to use the debian package was that I had picked a way of editing with debconf that got me very confused; don't remember now what I had chosen but it was a big mistake and it took a while for me to figure it out enough to change my choice. Haven't tried debian's brltty since, so it probasbly really is ok if you use an editing method that works for you. I was using the braillelite, and it seems to me at the time that the information on it said that speech drivers weren't implemented. If I can figure out why my /var/lib/dpkg/available still is listing an old package, I may get the package and test it out. Or I can just go and download it anyway and try it. My comments were based on a trial several months ago so if I am going to comment reliably I probably should give it another try. Cheryl _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list