On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Ron Marriage wrote: > Thanks, that's what I needed. I boot in level three and the > rest of the family runs startx to get to their GUI. > I am a bit disappointed that they'll have to reboot to run > the GUI, but guess we'll live with it. What gave you that idea? You shouldn't have to reboot at all. My experiences are that if somebody runs startx while Speakup is running, it shuts up as soon as X comes up. So, just try it and see what happens.