Hi, Thanks to everybody who got me going with a Speakup-enabled 2.6.6 kernel. And now, for another question. Currently I'm using Debian 3. However, I've always been a bit fascinated with Gentoo's Portage system, which downloads packages as source then compiles them right on the spot. I probably won't switch actually, but has anybody managed to get a talking Gentoo install using Speakup, and if so, how? As for stability, etc. is Gentoo pretty stable? I'm using Debian 3 stable which, as many of you probably know, is quite a bit out of date. I would assume Gentoo would be more current. Thanks for any advice and thoughts. Jayson.