Hi there: Kirk gave me a few clues about modprobe and that does work. I'm not sure about how to build an initrd--some of this is pretty new to me. Also, cvs still seems to be partially broken, because the DECtalk PC part is not getting built even as a module anymore. Going to play with that one a little. On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: Thanks! > I don't think you need to load speakupmain as loading the synth driver > should pull it in as a dependency. That's the point of modprobe. > > Also, you m ight want to build an initrd with decpc so that it will talk > during the boot like Speakup 1.x does.