Hello, OK, I got it compiled in and it actually speaks when I boot it! However, my keyboard will not respond. When I boot, I usually press the enter key on the keypad at the "lite talk found" message so that I don't have to hear the other stuff. Nothing responds - not even ctrl+alt+del. I compiled in both the LTLK driver and the user space software speech driver. I tried with both the Gentoo kernel and the vanilla 2.6.24.4 kernel. Also, what is the dummy, dummy synth driver? Robby