Okay Ernst thanks. I concur with Greg it looks like you may not have specified the apolo as your default synth when configuring the kernel. You should still be able to load the synth at the lilo boot prompt or in your lilo.conf file with an append line to get it to come up probing for the apolo. You can also load it after logging in with the echo apolo >/proc/speakup/synth_name command although it would probably be better to do it in lilo or just reconfigure the kernel and recompile. It shouldn't take very long to do considering you basically already have everything compiled. After the speakup version 2.0. whatever you should see a probing for apolo message indicating that it is attempting to find the Apolo. good luck. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
