that is no longer true. Follow Kirk's irections. the tab swspeak went away with releases past 2011.05 On 27/05/2013 10:59 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I thought you had to hit tab, space, type swspeak, and hit enter at > the grub prompt in order for it to unmute the sound card. > > Greg > > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 09:56:15PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote: > >> Hi Al: Just let grml boot normally without typing anything at the boot >> prompt. When it gets done it makes a little beedly-dop sound with the >> beeper. At that point it is at a menu of choices. Just hit enter and >> it'll drop to the shell prompt. At that point you can type modprobe >> speakup_soft or whatever you want to use then espeakup if you want >> software synth. >> >> Good luck. >> >> > >