Hi Well, the first issue sounds like a link is wrong. For a RedHat 6.2 system, here's how to go about installing the kernel: 1. cd /usr/src/linux 2. configure it with make config. When the speakup option appears, press y. Now, make sure you select the correct synth. When it prompts you, for the synth, enter "decexp" without the quotes. Finish configuring 3. make dep clean modules 4. Now move the old modules directory to a new name to avoid symbol version conflicts. The command to do it is (assuming kernel version is 2.2.14-5.0): mv /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0 /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.old 5. make modules_install 6. make bzImage Now, check a few things. Check lilo.conf to make sure it is configured to use the kernel version you have. assuming you simply installed the kernel-source provided with RH 6.2, and haven't made any modifications to lilo.conf, it should be set up correctly for you already. Now, finally type make install. This will take care of the links to the kernel for you. RH has a different way to do this than other distros. You shouldn't modify kernel links manually on RH, it seems to be picky. It also seems to be the distro most sensitive to any kernel change. Now, let's deal with the synth problem. My guess is that speakup is not finding the synth. Put the synth on com1 and supply this parameter to your kernel command line: speakup_ser=0 To do this, assuming you were booting with the disk image that works, you would type the following at the boot: prompt linux speakup_ser=0 I'm not precisely sure how rh creates their bootdisks. I believe it will append the root=/dev/partition line automatically, but if not you must also supply that parameter. Hope this helps. Jacob
