I pulled the git as of today and no speech upon boot. I even put speakup_synth=spkout on the boot line, but no joy. In the logs I get the following: Apr 13 16:53:11 ccs kernel: speakup 3.0.2: initialized Apr 13 16:53:11 ccs kernel: synth name on entry is: <NULL> How can I fix this or is it broke? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com