>>>>> "CN" == Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> writes: CN> Put the mknod command in your rc.local file (or your CN> distribution's equivilant). Hello, that's not so easy. I tried it already but without good result. The problem from my point of view is, that udev is too intelligent. :-) I have udev version 0.100 on my Debian and I see that is mounted udev on /dev . In older version is mounted tmpfs on /dev I do not know why but maybe it is not so important. I think that would be best when speakup will create the softsynth dynamically through udev. Best. -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 24 24 86 008 Mob: (00420) 608023021