Hi, the usual sorry if it's been posted before and all that, I have browsed the archives and haven't really found anything, or maybe haven't been looking in the right place. I have Gigabyte's Z87X-UD5H board in a new system, and want to have linux on it as well as Win8.1. This is the first board we have come across which does not feature a legacy boot option; i.e. it only supports efi boot partitions, though it will boot to an mbr partition after a lengthy pause. I came across this situation before when booting the cd, but we were able to boot the disk in legacy mode and give it the S parameter to start speakup and install normally on another machine. Here I cannot, though I can connect a braille display and use that during the install. When typing s followed by ENTER, the braille is running the text installer but there is no speech. I understand the EFI boot loader is different and so forth, but am wondering if something is not being passed correctly? It's just the usual Realtec soundcard and so forth, which seems to be supported no problem on other machines, but USB audio doesn't work here either, and I remember reading a year or so ago that this part was broken in uefi mode; is this correct? Interestingly (and I know this doesn't work but actually wonder why) if we make a bootable USB with this netinst ISO, the machine boots from that, we get the beep, but there is no speech. The interesting thing, is that if we boot it on another machine which comes up talking when I boot the cd on it, the USB version of the same installer does not speak. It works, but no speech. I'm alright with braille during the install if I have to be, but when completed it doesn't speak when the new system is booted, so what is the best way of getting speakup running on the system so as I can access the CLI? Thanks for any help. Marcel
