As you saw in my last post, ther serial ports showed up in /proc/ioports. I had built speakup into the kernel and the serial driver as a module in hopes that speakup could get at the resources first. I thought that maybe it couldn't override the 8250 driver, so I built 8250 as a module which got loaded at the time of running that cat /proc/ioports, since speakup couldn't find the litetalk. The serial port also shows up if 8250 driver is built into the kernel along with speakup, and when 8250 is built into the kernel and speakup is a module. Are there any other variations on this theme I aught to try for kernel configuration? Cheers, Josh
