I found that if speakup is made a modules the goto problem I whined about the other day is fixed. This is with speakup 3.1.5 and 2.6.32.9 kernel, debian. You can put the speakup modules in your initrd, which starts speakup much earlier in the boot process. Back it up first. install the initramfs-tools package. cd /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks. Either make a new script according to the initramfs-tools man page or if you are lazy like me you can put the following line at the end of the kernelextras script. force_load speakup_audptr or whatever your synth is This will also load all the dependencies for the module. Then as root update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.32.9 or whatever kernel version. If you want to examine the contents of your initrd file cd to an empty directory and then zcat /boot/initrd_file_for_your_kernel | cpio -i. Now wouldn't it be nice if someone got this working with software speech?
