-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I think this topic has come up in the past but don't remember if there was any resolution to it. It seems that I can't get Speakup to come up talking with Speech Dispatcher via the normal system startup scripts. I use rc.local to spawn my rc.speakup script. I've actually made this observation on two different laptops; both of them use Slackware and one of these machines for sure, show sftsyn as the value in /proc/speakup/synth_name an yet no speech. If I run this exact same script after logging on, all works fine. How I found the variable to be sftsyn before speech was to boot the machine, wait til I heard a beep telling me the login prompt was there, logged in, typed 'cat /proc/speakup/synth_name, then ran my rc.speakup restart sftsyn, then my machine talks. I see no funny stuff in any logs and you would think it was running all along and just restarted but yet I never get any speech until I login and restart the thing. Any ideas what could be going on here? - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEeVWBWSjv55S0LfERA6e3AJ0dhQMh5T0GKjxAjAQLWjvcVhh92ACgo1QN NHiw+4lpHDFJ1XFDkA8Y+64= =8kEp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----