I would recommend getting the latest tar ball from kernel.org and patch that with the speakup git repository. Then use the /proc/config.gz from your currently running ubuntu to get the basic ubuntu kernel configuration and only answer the newer options when doing a make oldconfig. This will get you as close as possible to a standard ubuntu kernel set-up. You can then change your grub configuration to pass the speakup.synth parametre in your grub.conf for your preferred synth. You could also just load the speakup_xxxx module from /etc/modules if having it built-in isn't really inportant to you. Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
