Using a fresh kernel tree and a fresh git checkout of speakup, I ran install which successfully patched my 2.6.24 kernel. ::::::::::::::::::::: ~/speakup/install.log ::::::::::::::::::::: patching file drivers/char/consolemap.c patching file drivers/char/keyboard.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 111 with fuzz 1. patching file drivers/char/vt.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 3983 (offset 49 lines). patching file drivers/Kconfig patching file drivers/Makefile patching file drivers/char/Makefile Hunk #1 succeeded at 96 (offset -1 lines). speakup has been installed to /usr/src/linux I built the kernel, rebooted, logged in as root and ran modprobe to load my new speakup dectalk express module. It could not be found and here is the output. # modprobe speakup_dectlk start=1 speakup 3.0.2: initialized synth name on entry is: <NULL> initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) synth probe Probing for Dectalk Express. Dectalk Express: not found dectlk: device probe failed FATAL: Error inserting speakup_dectlk (/lib/modules/2.6.24/kernel/drivers/char/speakup/speakup_dectlk.ko): No such device # The synth is on /dev/ttyS0 (the one and only serial port on this machine). After the failure above, I ran some other software and it found the synth just fine. What next? Jim
