-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 OK, here is a random guess. I don't use any of those packages, so I could be completely wrong, but it sounds like it can't load the Speakup modules. There are only a couple of reasons why. First, because they're already loaded. If you still have espeakup installed, try removing it so it doesn't load on boot as it also tries to load the modules. The other reason could be because you don't have the modules in the first place, but I don't think that's the case. I would first try removing espeakup and stop all speech programs. Try starting them by hand, making sure the speakup and speakup_soft modules are also removed with rmmod as the error tells you. In other words, let the init script load the modules as intended. If that doesn't seem to help, check /etc/modules and comment out any speakup or speakup_soft lines and reboot. A reboot isn't strictly necessary, but the idea is to clear any loaded modules and speech programs. Of course that means you won't have speech at login until you get Speech-Dispatcher working, but you can always reinstall espeakup. You could also temporarily remove the execute bit on /etc/init.d/espeakup if you don't want to completely remove the package. As I said, I don't use those packages, so I could be totally wrong, but to me, it sounds like it can't load the modules because they're already loaded and the script gets an error. On 5/19/2013 5:55 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: > Sorry for the confusion. I do have a file called "speechd-up" in > /etc/init.d. > > Here is what happened after I did /etc/init.d/speechd-up start > > Starting Interface between speakup and speech-dispatcher : > speechd-up[Sun May 19 20:52:57 2013] speechd: Configuration has been > read from "/etc/speechd-up.conf" Starting speechd-up... To work, > speechd-up needs speakup and speakup_soft modules. They are loaded > automatically. If you don't want, type rmmod speakup speakup_soft > failed! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRmd03AAoJEPrAuJWnLe0yaBMP+wZjRYoy/JQdzZeaYYUHL/zE BrgHFfcE7igxEJwRLzMZONM+9obDhi382pxUClYzK7+3fH4vKj9IITLnau5ukK8A BK3emiP5uBcSYaadrKESadBwDIaD3uOdh0kEdmnGzreRevzwsyZGOSgpqUkX+9nz gsK5e5zX0lHYF1Qji+ZhcVAcryFs7wLOHmQj7fnffg8SVRVc6d+9YWGK5VcIHJOX H8gvvQCA9bnmHNqTHnJEjpbSWDcr+MfV6Y9TtF3SUWfZzYCwMiQbXRtq0Y/BYoc3 idTGewWePyzWb9XVq2zdYLOu+rZrz232DzpLMv4V/3WXOJJmsSIWSrFYSXtfskLe CukAE1wG3UjAnhqfEsJy/gjeMCR+7/d5f1NSJ31t3threMpHwZD31GDJcfSOAk5+ WaoRoou5EaVWQlcyQJQ6C1AkgpkzTrKt9H8EwY5g5jbFVNrW+nS+SR7Z3dC7NxVN OsTAsz9NYeFQcnx4QU8Y3eajEWKvNxSA4r13HklNDm6NSjlJ0cAkzzJYBhB3pRSB cZNT4ctn2TcA4GDfjPrO3xq6nC27WM/gNw6wAP61WIHREGDo/DzBeZD/D57MHsG1 NYhDH5SoxoBBRmyGd2tnr5y12t9cX5nAxYX5USgVyRC8S8uGmCLJaljiYiqxHukK Z8qBVSxseeIunWcHUfsL =EVYC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----