Thus spake Kenny Hitt, > Hi. I remember it too. I thought it was done with an emacspeak server > patched to talk through speakup instead of the Kernel Double talk > driver. > in a previous post, I've explained how this can be achieved. the thing is I think from memory, speakup grabs the serial port and even when you kill speakup on a particular console, it don't release it. if I'm wrong, then I wasn't helpfull. -- Shaun Oliver "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!" EMAIL: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: blindman_2001 at hotmail.com AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun