Hi, Dannie. I'm not totally clear what is going on here, but have you specifically installed the RealPlayer 8 rpm that is on the speakup ftp site? As far as I am aware I don't know of any Linux distribution that ships RealPlayer with the distro except for Mandrake Delux which contains it on the comercial apps cd. At any rate if you are using a distro that uses rpm here is how to check and make sure RealPlayer is truly installed. rpm -q RealPlayer Please, note the caps in that line. Hth.