Hope this still goes with this subject. I tried running the newest grml earlier today, 1.0 in vmware and had a very odd thing happen. I did get speach, but, it was studdering really bad and had lowd pops at the start of every word so I could bearly understand anything it was saying. This happend two times, when I typed grml swspeak at the boot prompt, it took about 10 seconds, and I got some speach, but, I could not understand anything it said, and, then, after it finished booting, I typed swspeak as it says to do in the cheat codes for grml and I once again had speach. I could not understand this either. As I said, it has some very lowd hissing pops that almost completely cover the speach, so, very hard to understand anything. I also noticed that in the cheat code notes, it said something about a vmware code that I could use at the prompt, but, I did not understand how to use it. I have not had any problems getting any other distro to boot with speach, such as ubuntu using orca, orilux, debian using speakup and my doubletalk lt, etc. So, maybe I am just doing something wrong, or, it's something with grml itself? If someone can give me some idea of what to do to fix it, or, point me to something to read, I would be greatful.