It occurs to me that I could rig up the hotplug subsystem to initialize the tripletalk synth when I plug in the USB cable. Has anyone ever configured a custom script to run via the hotplug system? This would make some use of the USB cable on the tripletalk at least. Well, it already supplies power, which is nice. I also have a doubletalk and I always forget to turn it off and then before I know it the battery is dead. But it would be pretty slick to be able to connect up the serial cable and then the USB cable and have it start talking. It should be possible. -- John Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu / 608-263-4189 If you are blind and you use linux, please subscribe to blinux-list at redhat.com