Good day, I have installed speech-dispatcher and speechd-up from packages and am having a problem getting speech to automatically start. I see that speech-dispatcher is automatically started by the /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher script, but my current situation is: I am running a killall for both speech-dispatcher and speechd-up in rc.local before envoking both with sleep statements inbetween from rc.local. I get to a login prompt without speech and once signed on, I can killall speechd-up and run it again by hand and then have speech. Adding the killall speechd-up and the re-execution after a sleep statement into rc.local does not work. Any ideas? TIA, Willem ps. this is a 600 MHZ old Athlon processor. -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.