I have a dectalk-express and a Braille N Speak. It would be helpful to have a set of bare.i boot disks for all the currently supported synths. The slackware boot/root disks are a great way to test speakup on a given machine/synthesizer combination. Patching and recompiling kernels is striaghtforward but is a bit time consuming. I strongly support the boot-root disk approach for testing. If it works, more folks will be motivated to invest the time to build it into their kernels. If it doesn't work, then bug reports can besubmitted and the user hasn't feel as thought he/she has wasted time. Chris w1gm at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
