After I start my laptom after I turned it off to preserve battery life, I lost use of speech even though I have an item in my /etc/conf.d/local.start file that sets the permissions of my /dev/dsp* files to 655 on my gentoo system, anybody have any clues? because the only way i've found to resolve the problem is to re-emerge eflite and it will work again. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list