Hi Kirk and listers, Kirk, I thank You very much for Your offer for help! First I'd like to tell You what I did to follow Your recommendations. I got kernel 2.4.26 from ftp.kernel.org and tried to apply the Speakup path (speakup-1.5), but I didn't get further then the first step. I unpacked the kernel sources, installed the kernel-include package from Slackware 10 and entered ./install from the speakup-1.5 directory. I got the following output: Patching version v24 Creating .orig files [...................] done. Patching files [pppppppppppppppp1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/miscdevice.h.rej ppp] done. Copying files [ccccc] done. What next? I'd also like to tell You what I did *before* this, when I tried to go about it my own way. I first tried to install Slackware 10.0 from the cdrom and then I used Joseph C. Lieningers modified cdroms. When I entered the Parameters for Apollo it didn't say anything. Then, I sucessfully compiled a kernel from Slackware 10.0 kernel sources. The compile went well till the end. after making a bootdisk I got the same result. Apollo II did not talk! I had unmarked everything but the Apollo synth when compiling the kernel. I hope, You, Kirk, or someone else in this list can give me some advice as to how to go on. If all this stuff should be to tedious for this list I wouldn't mind going on with pms. Regards Ernst
