Hi Kirk, I didn't put it very clearly: I compiled Apollo as a normal synth and softsynth as a module as there was no other choice for this. The only messages I found concerning Speakup were that Speakup V.2.00 or something was initialized and that /dev/synth with nodes MAJOR 10 and MINOR 25 were initialized. I didn't find anything about probing for synths. When the bootdisk was ready I entered the parameters "mount root=/dev/hda3 ro speakup_synth=apolo" and got, as I already mentioned, no speech output. Ernst
