Hi Try using a dot instead of the underscore. speakup.synth= Gena On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 17:09 -0400, Albert E. Sten-Clanton wrote: > First, congratulations to Bill and Janina for getting out a speakup-modified version of Fedora before the "official" one hits the cyberstreets. Though I'm having a problem, I think that's really cool. > > My problem is that so far I've been unable to get speech for installing Fedora 9. I'm trying to do it using the DVD image on my hard drive and a CD of the Fedora-Rawhide-i386-netinst.iso image. The CD passed the SHA1SUM check. > > After the CD spins briefly, I do up-arrow, tab, space, then "askmethod speakup_synth=ltlk" and hit enter. I've also tried down-arrow instead of up-arrow, as well as adding "speakup_ser=0". (I use an external TriplTalk.) I tested my steps on my Fedora 8 rescue CD, which worked fine, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to unless the process has changed. > > Thanks for any help. > > Al Sten-Clanton > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Gena http://www.ready2golinux.com M0EBP