Hello, Hermann, le Sun 31 May 2009 22:07:37 +0200, a ?crit : > When I reboot my machine the direct file has changed its value from 1 > to 0; is this normal? Yes. You can change modules' parameters by adding a file to /etc/modprobe.d or whichever way it's done in your distro, see its documentation. That said, maybe we could make espeakup systematically set direct to 1 itself? Samuel