Hi, you will need to modify your /etc/grub.conf. As an example I will place my grub.conf in this message for example perposes. Hope this helps. What you will see is a speakup startup followed by an normal startup without speakup for cases when speakup is not desirible such as using my Dectalk express with emacspeak or testing the gnome-speech dectalk driver, etc. # 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=50 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Start with Speakup (2.4.18-14) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi speakup_synth=dectlk initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img title Normal startup (2.4.18-14) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img