Shawn, i tried also to skip that sttep and when I did, i still had the same issue. In fact, it did me even worse without skipping it as it asked me to type 1 on an empty line to accept the key map, or 2 on an empty line to decline and reselect. The trouble is, that at this point in the installer, regardless if I selected a key map or not, the speakup keys at that point stop working. now: I heard something about there being a newly created cursor tracking experimental feature you could enable by hitting the star key. I haven't tried doing that as of yet, and really I probably should, as I wonder if that may help matters any? Somehow though, i tend to doubt it... What exactly is cursor tracking anyway? I know: if I use jaws under windows, I should know by now what that is, and I guess, i sort a do, but not exactly. i wonder, if I actually need to go up to the speakup ftp site and grab the speakup.i boot floppy and run it as a ramdisk and then use the two install root disk floppies, instead of booting to the cd rom and then issuing the speakup.i command line. i wonder if i'd have better luck that way... i have to leave the house and will be gone till about 3 to 3:30 PM eastern today, but then I have two days to myself that I can play with it... Also, I'd like to schedulte and find someone ahead of time, who would be willing once i'm up and successfully running who could assist me either remotely through ssh or maybe telnet, or could even maybe over the phone help me, with installing my sound card's alsa drivers... I am using an sb live value. Under windows, it's version 5.1 so I don't know under Linux what version of the alsa drivers I'd need. I guess there is only one version, but i'm not really sure... Thanks. Chris.
