Dan, That is a well known bug that came about because Shane patched the 2.6.8 kernel with a transitory version of speakup, which of course was fixed shortly after Shane did the patch. It's a killer. What I did when reinstalling is to begin with the 2.6 kernel on the install CD, but as soon as possible upgrade to another precompiled kernel with speakup built in, an extremely simple installation done with a single command, "apt-get install <kernel-package-name>" There are several to choose from depending on your architecture. They are all 2.6.12.5, I believe. To do this, you first need to add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (avoiding the mark-cut-paste feature): deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./ and then issue these commands as root: apt-get update apt-cache search speakup kernel which will show you the available kernel packages with speakup built in, from which you can make your choice. Next, do this: apt-get install <kernel-package-you-chose> and that's all there is to it. You might want to look at your lilo.conf to make sure it was modified correctly, but the install process will attempt to do that and will run lilo if you want it to. Once you have this new kernel installed, you are once again on safe ground. Good luck. -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (62% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
