Hi! Thanks for your Help. I tried `festval --server &' and after that `middleware'. These commands run successfully without any error messages but speakup did not speak. So i wonder if i missed something? Shall i give any command to kernel at startup? To help those who will be so kind to assist me in solving my problem i include in this message the output of `dmesg' concerning speakup and usrdev: usrdev: probe() creating Speakup userland device usrdev: char_create_init(). Speakup usrdev: Registered as char device major #0 Speakup usrdev: Minor number is 0 Speakup v-1.5: initialized speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) It seems to me that evrything is OK but i can be mistaken. Thanks in advance, Sergey. >>>>> "OPS" == Owen Patrick Smith <ender3rd at WPI.EDU> writes: OPS> You can either use festival --server & or OPS> /path/to/festival/src/scripts/festival_server.sh which acts as OPS> the first but also does some configuration of the server that may OPS> be usrful. I personally reccommend the shell script but people OPS> have reported success with both. OPS> HtH OPS> Owen OPS> On 28 Apr 2003, SergeyFleytin wrote: >> Hi, folks! Greetings from Russia! I am new to this list and yew to >> linux. Yesterday i downloaded and installed speakup with patches >> for using it with festival. I patched both speakup and kernel >> successfully and it seemed that everything is correct. But i don't >> know, which command i should use to start festival to work as a >> demon for the speakup. Any advice on this subject will be highly >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Sergey Fleytin >> >> _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing >> list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> OPS> _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing OPS> list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca OPS> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- ? ?????????, ?????? ???????.