You really should give us more information; what version of speakup? What boot disk? What kernel version? What type of machine is this? Does the detect work if you power on the synth and then the machine? does the detect work if you specify both speakup_synth and speakup_ser? for example: linux speakup_synth=ltlk speakup_ser=0 looks for a bns on com1. A bug report that says "the synth detect doesn't work" is no use to anyone; it doesn't work for me either in certain circumstances; for example if my transport was allready powered on and had been in linux first; but I am not r unning latest cvs so I have not worried too much. Obviously the detect does work for a lot of folks; so we need to try find out what difference is in your hardware; what versions you are tr ying and the like. In older speakup synth detect did depend on machine speed. Too fast or too slow a box and the detect would fail. For example the transport was detected fine on the k6-2/500 but not the 486dx4/100 or the Duron 750. This problem was fixed when I upgraded to speakup 1.0. Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:03AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been having this problem for several months: > speakup won't detect my synth. I have ruled out the possibility of bad > synth/cable because both synths work in dos. > I have tried a bns and a dectalk, both with no luck. > ------------------------------- > Alex Snow > Email: alex_snow at gmx.net > BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org > web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org > The Computer Repair Guy: > If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au