Hi John, to answer your questions, the speakup package on gentoo can't be built into the kernel, you have to load the modules when you boot. That is easily done by listing the modules you need in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or configuring /etc/conf.d/modules, depending on whether you are using baselayout-1 or openrc. Running make oldconfig should be fine, it will just remove the speakup references from the .config. William
