Hello, I use kernel 2.6.18 and last cvs snapshot of speakup. patching, compilation and installing was OK. I create by hand in /dev device softsynth and If I run modprobe speakup_sftsyn and started speechd-up, speakup works OK. But if I rebooted the speakup frozen and Linux not started. If I remove loading of speakup module then Linux started but in /dev was not the softsynth device. Probably the udev erased it. Any solution? Thanks. -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 24 24 86 008 Mob: (00420) 608023021