Hello all. "Recently upgraded to 2.6.26 on Debian Sid here and installed the appropriate speakup-modules package. Did a modprobe speakup_dectlk module but do not get any speech from the Dectalk Express. Looking in /sys/module/speakup/init_status or something, I can see that the module is indeed alive. So what gives? Thanks for all the help. This machine does have a working sound card but no speakers. Luckily I do have Brltty and other boxes, so it is accessible via SSH at the moneht. eheil at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org