greetings, Some one posted a message saying that speak up can be compiled as modules rather than patched directly into the kernel with the command: make -C src/ modules modules_install I have a couple of questions before I try this. 1: is there any place specific whre the speakup tar needs to be unpacked? 2: I will be using software synthesis. Will this require the addition of speech-dispatcher (with the speeched-up package)? thank you:-) _________________________________________________________________ Suspicious message? There?s an alert for that. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_broad2_122008