Hi: Seems you don't have the speakup keymap loading. there's a number of ways to fix this, but seeing I'm not a redhatter, I can't comment on how best to go about this in redhat. For a temporary work-around, get the speakupmap.map file from the FTP site, then every time you boot, type: loadkeys <speakupmap.map Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701