Hi all, OK. So I now have one of my systems upgraded from Red Hat 8 to Red Hat 9. I accomplished that using the text telnet method described previously. I have also installed the following two Speakup specific RPMs from ftp.linux-speakup.org: kbd-1.08-4spk.i386.rpm kernel-2.4.20-18.9spk2.i686.rpm While I can successfully ssh into my system, after having to temporarily disable iptables, Speakup does not speak despite the following /boot/grub/grub.conf contents: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.9spk2) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9spk2 ro root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=acntpc initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.9spk2.img # title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=acntpc # initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img What am I missing here? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.