Hello, Not sure if anyone is working on this, but as of now, CVS Speakup and kernel 2.6.18 aren't playing nice together. Of course, it's the usual files, vt.c and keyboard.c. Creating .orig files [..........] done. Patching files [ppppppp1 out of 10 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/keyboard.c.rej p1 out of 14 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vt.c.rej pp] done. Copying files [cccccc] done. HTH Garrett