-- On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 00:37:54 Geoff Shang wrote: >Speakup 0.10A had trouble detecting some synths. You're right, I found the answer in an old post from William Acker. I added the line; append="speakup_synth=dectlk speakup_ser=0" to /etc/lilo.conf under the speakup kernel, ran "lilo" and now it will boot every time. Thank you, sir. IMHO this beats the **** out of emacspeak! My thanks to the authors. Get 250 color business cards for FREE! at Lycos Mail http://mail.lycos.com/freemail/vistaprint_index.html