Hi, Yes, I tried it really fast after it started. It stopped if I pressed enter immediately. The system is running on a solid state hard drive and is really fast to boot...something like fifteen seconds to GUI. So, your advice worked, thanks. Still no speech in TTY 3 and TTY 1 and 2 act like they are compiling something and fail when tried. TTY 3 says espeakup is running, but? I am looking for the file controlling booting and want to try booting into console first, then up to GUI as needed. I am in the /boot directory about to read files...I think for runlevel? Scott -- Scott D. Henning Architectural Audio Design PO Box 1372 Durango, Colorado 81302
