seems Igot it working. I had to mknod /dev/dsp c 14 3 and the same for /dev/mixer, they kept disappearing on boot so I just added a script to startup that does that for me to solve the problem. Thanks all for the help, speech works great at boot now, I leave the networking nightmare for tomorrow. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield http://tds-solutions.net Twitter: sorressean On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Tyler, > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:21:20AM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> un mute? they've never been muted before, but I'll look at aumix manpages and see if there's something in there for it. > > Try running these commands (the final "on" does the unmuting): > > amixer sset Master 100% on > > amixer sset PCM 100% on > > To see all the available settings, just type "amixer" and hit enter. > The man page you want is that for amixer. > > Chuck > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (2% of Full) > www.mhcable.com/~chuckh, or www.hallenbeck.ftml.net > Audio editor weblog: edway.wordpress.com > -------- > Linux: the operating system with a CLUE, (Command Line User Environment) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup