Hi Cheryl. Use the bonobo-slay command after you stop gdm. You are getting left over bonobo processes left around. Gene >Yep, that was it!!! I took gdm out of the gentoo rc-update default so it >wouldn't run on reboot. I rebooted and without gnopernicus running the >"say" command was fine. I'd had speech stop on me last time I logged in to >gdm anyway and I bet that was it; those processes don't always seem to get >killed cleanly. so now I suppose if I don't want those issues I use >festival, which I don't really like. If I ever get braille working I'll >forget speech anyway but obviously I'm not too happy about this turn of >events. >I guess I'd better post about this on gnome-accessibility too unless I >find something in the archives that says they already know. > > >-- >Cheryl > >"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup