Yeah, I noticed that with the grml2009.10 cd too, think it's that vesa boot menu. A few friends have had this problem too. For me, the cd completely freezes as soon as the menu appears. On 4/9/10, Gaijin <gaijin at clearwire.net> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:41:39PM +1200, Arthur Pirika wrote: >> Grml just refuses to speak, but it does seem to load. as far as i >> know, > > Try an earlier verson of GRML. I had a similar problem booting > the sucker on a Dell Lattitude D630 with all Intel hardware. Older > versions of GRML would come up speaking, but newer versions wouldn't. > Whatever they changed in the setup messed something up. You could > always go with Debian. I've never had it stop speaking since first > installing with Shane's Etch installation CD. Debian came up talking > from the start and hasn't stopped talking yet. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >