All, First of all, grml has a new release candidate out. They could use people to test accessibility. Point a vrowser to http://bit.ly/sESUaa Second, is there a command to unmute the sound card? I mean, I know you can do that with a mixer but I need a command to do it because if there is no sound, I can't run the mixer. I'm pretty sure that software speech is working on this latest grml release but I can't confirm it because I can't get sound to work. And I think that's because the sound card is muted.