Jude DaShiell wrote: > The reason the reboot was silent that time is that when > grub's menu.lst gets updated, the speakup speech synthesizer selection and > all options following it get stripped out of menu.lst so this time before > rebooting I checked menu.lst and put them back in. Hi Jude, Note, that in Debian, you can set the options in menu.lst permanently, so that your kernel list is automatically updated with all the desired options. See 'man update-grub' for more info. Best regards, Tomas.