Greetings from a , list and speakup relative newby. I have Speakup with a doubletalk PC under fedora 7 on a 1 gig Asis P2b board with a processor upgrade to the 1 gig speed. 340Mb ram. Installed with Bill Acker's help. It freezes on boot before finding the synth, maybe a third of the boot tries. screen says only: "booting the kernel" and never proceeds further. When it works, it works just fine. When it freezes it needs a complete shut off with the nasty power button or it will never start. So far as I can tell, booting without speakup this doesn't happen. I've tried changing the doubletalk's address jumpper to a couple different locations resulting in the same behavior. I did not update the kernel after install when I did the suggested update all Any ideas, other than "get a new computer" would be appreciated. Thanks Tom Fowle