Greetings! In a recent message, Samuel Thibault wrote, "s is not a boot parameter, it's boot menu shortcut, which passes speakup.synth=soft" I decided on Friday that I'd like to try using Wheezy. I created a CD from debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso. at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest On booting, I had no trouble that I remember bringing up hardware speech. In case I may need it for another computer, I tried using the "s" shortcut to get software speech. It didn't work. Or, maybe it's more precise to say I heard nothing, in case the problem is the muted sound card hassle I've had before. Is that shortcut supposed to work with the Wheezy image I used, or is there a specialized image for that use? Thanks! Al