A question I have not found an answer to. Speakup is built into my RedHat 7.3 Kernel and uses MY DECTalk Express on COM1. Before I run the Emacspeak 16.0 rpm, I was wondering if I should unload speakup to free up the DECTalk Express? Angus MacKinnon Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm MAILTO:flodabay at hotmail.com Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. http://www.choroideremia.org