I'd say you have it scoped pretty well Steve. Do a checkout to update speakup and then run make modules and make modules_install as you indicated. You will have to compile speakup and it's drivers as modules to be able to do this. If you aren't worried about having speech right from boot up you can put your driver module in /etc/modules and it will load as soon as the root fs is initialized. To do this you need only specify the driver in the /etc/modules file like speakup_acentpc or whatever. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061