Tony, Downloaded and burned livetest32.iso to cd Reboot from CD, came up with orca and espeak no problems I could recognize. Attempted to run my serial port alva display, brltty responded to command but display did not come up. It works in Debian. Killed speakup etc. with the commands you gave me. did modprobe speakup_dtlk could not find speakup_dtlk Just for interest? machine is an Asis P2B 1GHz celeron with 780MB ram (all it will take) Response on the livetest cd is pretty sluggish, but not unexpected, it's that way running orca/gnome from Debian wheezy We have at least one other older box on which we can try the livetest just to see if it works, but that other box has no isa slots so no go for doubletalk. Happy to try if simply reporting another successfull livetest boot is usefull. thanks for the usefull effort. tom fowle _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup