Hi all, I have successfully patched in the second festival patch ... the one from Owen and his crew. Although, it just doesn't seem to talk. Festival can read files fine ... festival --tts <file> Festival certainly works on my system. And I even have a /proc/speakup/Userland character-device output dir So the usrdev driver seems to work fine. I've now also created the /dev/usrdev file: mknod /dev/usrdev c 252 0 (I double-checked those numbers in /proc/devices). Now, when I run middleware, it connects to the festival server fine. But: It doesn't seem to speak when I hit anything on the keyboard and also, it suddenly decides to just exit itself when I do things like press the numpad plus key. (doesn't print any errors though). (I didn't make usrdev as the default synth, only passed speakup_synth=usrdev to kernel at bootup). Is anyone else having any of these problems, or, does anyone have any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? (Right now I'm recompiling with usrdev as default synth and seeing how that goes, although I can't really see how that would change anything). Thanks Mick
