Hello all: I've got a couple problems and need a little assistance figuring out what's going on. First, I got my Fedora core 6 installed without problems. I installed speech-dispatcher from the tar balls at www.freebsoft.org, and all seems to have went OK there. Here's where I'm having trouble. 1., when I try to compile Espeak after doing yum install portaudio, I get make errors that say "no definition for thread join and thread cancel." Lastly, I put the following lines in my rc.local file to get speech-dispatcher running, and at least festival for now. festival --server speech-dispatcher. Now, when I boot, I get the message from festival that says that the server started, and then I don't get to the login prompt. Is there something I should have put after festival --server? Or, is there a better way to start festival and speech-dispatcher on boot? Furthermore, how can I regain access to my box? Do I have to telnet in from another machine? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Guy -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.427 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 10/27/2006 3:15 PM