Dawes, Stephen wrote: > Well Kathy, > > The simplest solution, answer to your question, is to find out what > distribution of Linux the college is using, and then see if there is a > speakup modified version of it available. If there is, then all you need > to do is get the speakup modified version installed for you to use. > > ... or you could suggest to the course organisers that they switch to a version of Linux that supports speakup. I think that is a reasonable request and it may even be a legal requirement. I would of course recommend Ubuntu which supports speakup in the default kernel, but I guess Fedora is more similar to Suse, being RPM-based. Henrik