-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm down to a strange pattern on one of my boxes when it comes to launching Speech Dispatcher, speakup and speechd_up in that order. It basically comes down to this. dispatcher and speakup are loading correctly; that is, /proc/speakup/synth_name is properly set to softsynth. If I do this sequence from any shell script, speechd_up logs an error about [y being an invalid command or something and I get no speech. Then if I killall speechd_up and follow that by restarting speechd_up, I get speech. For whatever reason, speechd_up doesn't like getting loaded from a script. This is on a desktop machine running kernel 2.4.25 with ALSA. Here's a strange deal though. On my P120 laptop, I do the exact same sequence and it loads properly every time. The differences are that the laptop is running OSS drivers and the kernel is 2.4.26. Any possible explanation for the difference in behavior? I have to say this is working out greate for my laptop. We've come a long ways! - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAmoGqWSjv55S0LfERAsYuAKDBUYTvwahu7uSabEXj/vxeI0WO+ACfUYBM c22ToPwp2OavtyAqvjnu/uk= =OwIJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----