Hi Steve, I recall your earlier posts, and evidently the experts are just as puzzled as we followers are. There doesn't appear to be a clear pattern of which configurations fail and which work okay. I just thought I'd add one more fact to the available data on what works and what doesn't. Chuck On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:13:11PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I haven't upgraded the kernel on my system yet but I tried your > suggestions for the Speakout and no go. I got nothing! In the > meantime, I'm going to explore creating a serial module for Speech > Dispatcher; there may be some interest there for those who might wanna > use a serial synth on their systems with gnome and other subsystems > that rely on Speech Dispatcher. > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (72% of Full) My software website: edway.ftml.net, and weblog edway.wordpress.com My Jabber ID: chuckh1 at jabber.org (beware the silent h!) -------- Linux: The operating system with a CLUE, a Command Line User Environment