Thanks, that explains things! Right now all that's available is slackware 8.0.0 over here. I'll have to get with internet.com and fix that perhaps but I figured this version would take care of me until slackware 9.0 came out sometime this winter. On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > Actually, the problem with the Slackware 8.0 Speakup kernel was that they > compiled it for SMP support and the modules that get installed by default > were for single-processor machines. You can either copy the SMP modules > from the contrib CD over the existing ones, or rebuild your kernel without > SMP support. If this is a new install, I don't understand why you'd use > Slackware 8.0 over 8.1 unless that is all you have available. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >