One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the gnome-speech package. When I run test-speech, I get: 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2 When I hit 1, I get : Atempting to activate OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2. Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival, then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to need to build it from source? Thanks. Greg On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:54:45PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > I didn't need to configure x at all on my slack 9.1 system. Once I > installed x and gnome I ran pkgtool, chose the setup option, and reran > the x window manager selection script. I chose gdm and the default and > now all I need to do is run startx and gnome loads up fine.