1. Unless I keep hitting the alt key throughout boot, my speech cuts out before the end of boot never to return. The system does finish booting, however. I am using doubletalk-lt. I have tried fourmeg.zip with no change. 2. I get "init module busy" and randomseed is used instead. I have checked my irq: no problem that I can find. 3. I'll have to add fetchmail to this (if I get it working properly). I suppose it isn't a huge deal except that I'm already going to add emacs and emacspeak. Seems like a lot of work for something I'm just using till I get a larger hard drive and install as full distribution. 4. Is the old zipspeak and ltlk still abailable somewhere? I erased mine to download the new ones. I'm thinking I would go back to the 7.0 version for now if we can't find answers to these problems quickly. I already looked at the slackware site under slackware 7.0; zipspeak 7.0 isn't there. I understand the space constraints, but I must say I'm really upset about leaving out fetchmail.--Cheryl
