Hello, Well I have found a fix for my problem with speakup, it turned out trying to pass in the quiet=1 option to the main speakup module was causing the problem. While this has found a way of getting speakup working for me, it raises the question, why does it break when this option is given? I made a check of the modinfo for speakup and quiet is documented as a parameter for the speakup module. Michael Whapples __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6651 (20111122) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com