Dear Jude, I have installed it several times as well, here are some hints as per my notes: When configuring the kernel, under stage drivers, the core speakup module must be buillt into the kernel, and any other synthesiser (hardware of software) must be built as a module, otherwise it won't work. As for the find command, if you are speaking of the command to find a compiled module after you have quit the configuration, I don't really know if it still works, but in any case, I use ls itself to traverse some directory structures until I find my desired modules or not. After installing the kernel, open /etc/conf.d/modules, and add a line for the speakup_soft module respecting the format as instructed there. Then do emerge espeakup and emerge alsa-utils, then open /etc/conf.d/alsasound and make sure it is set to save and restore sound parameters on each boot. Then run the following: /etc/init.d/alsasound start rc-update add espeakup default You may also run alsa-mixer and increase volumes. I think it's all, hope that helps. Greetings Cleverson _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
