Tony Baechler writes: > No. I got the CD to work fine here with 256 MB of RAM. It was painfully > slow and Orca didn't come up automatically, but it worked and I could use > speech. My machine is older than yours, but it's a desktop. Even good laptops are touchy beasts. They have to do lots of cutting-edge things to try to make the battery last and the size be manageable. What I was actually hoping for was a portable computer with speech that will run ssh and a RS-232 port so I can occasionally go to buildings on campus and work on stuff that you can't get to any other way. GRML has a new distribution out but initially, it reports that the sound card is missing. It's not missing but Dell must have put it in a strange place in the memory map. Remember Oralux and the crowing rooster? It's the only distribution that had no trouble finding the sound card in that laptop. Trouble is, speakup goes in to that spelling mode when serial data are received. I tried a PCMCIA card and a USB converter. The USB converter was found but caused that spelling mode. The PCMCIA card registers itself but kermit can't understand the port number. Fortunately, this isn't something I need to do every day, but it is sure nice when you can. The quest continues. Martin _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list