I am using debian lenny with kernel 2.6.26-1-686 with the speakup modules package for the same. I am using the software synthesizer with speech-dispatcher and speechd-up. My system crashes causing keyboard to lock up when I use modprobe to load them from the command line. The strange thing is... I can open X-Windows and load the modules in xterm or rxvt and exit X-Windows and speakup works great. I have tried init script to no avail either. Seems that the only way I can get speakup to work is by loading them from xterm. What can I do? Joe Kamphaus of LinuxSpeaks [http://www.joekamphaus.net] www.joekamphaus.net [http://www.joeandwilma.com]