Hi. I am using gentoo and was trying to tell it that I was using my own speakup -- because this speakup package insists on kernel 2.6.25 and I am not even sure speakup works with that kernel -- however I wrote in /etc/portage/package.provided the following line app-accessibility/speakup-3.0.2_p20080414 HOwever, portage still wants to energe speakup which does not work. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give on this one. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com