Hi, Originally, the keyword for the Apollo synth was apolo, but I think it was finally fixed. Try: speakup_synth=apollo, That's with 2 L's. HTH. -- Bill in Denver On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ernst-Dieter Wedekind wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >