Hi. Gnome-speech is the gnome module that handles your speech synthesizers. If you have a complete installation of gnome 2.4 then you should already have gnopernicus and gnome-speech installed. You don't need to run festival. Gnome-speech starts it's own servers. This is just a guess, but run level 5 started gdm. The gdm default session starts gnome but the startx script doesn't hava a default session. Try creating a file in your home dir called .xinitrc In it, put exec gnome-session That should make the startx script start a gnome session. Kenny On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:32:47AM -0500, showell at lrxms.net wrote: > Folks, > > I am interested in trying this out. I am using Fedora 1.0 and everything > appears to be installed. The question I have and haven't been able to > determine from the docs is this. First in the GNopernicus documentation > I found on the web it refers to gnome-speech, but I haven't located this > and it apparently is a program. I'll have to go back over the docs to > refresh my memory of its purpose, but I guess until I find it that won't > matter much.<grin> Can someone tell me if this thing exists and where I > might locate it? I might be digging in the wrong place or searching for > it incorrectly, but maybe its something else. > Ok the other question is do I need to launch festival in server mode > prior to running startx or does it get launched as a part of the > Gnopernicus startup process. I haven't found anything that says one way > or the other, but then I'm not surprised as perhaps its assumed the > speech server/whatever is already running. This again could be a > missconception on my part. > Oh lastly, I reconfigured the box to start in runlevel 3 instead of 5 so > I can just run startx. I did run this lastnight my wife mentioned the > screen was blank. It was not blank when the runlevel was set to 5 and I > ran startx. Any ideas? > > tia > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup