Try booting with a DOS disk, then warm boot with the Linux boot disk--that's always worked for me in that situation. Greg On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:32:42AM +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > ok, if i plug my synth into my laptop computer bootdisks for debian/redhat/slackware work. if i use the same disk and same synth on my desktop it doesn't talk. the synth is either apollo2 or decexpress. i have a feeling that this is because speakup cannot initialise some newer serial ports, is this true; could it be fixed easily? > thanks, saqib >