Hi, all First of all, The list manager can disregard my last message. I have a work-around for my m player and speech problem. First of all, I have to stop pulse audio by going to /etc/init.d, then running the pulseaudio script like so: pulsaudio --stop I have to move the pulseaudio binary from /usr/bin to a safe place, then reboot. Mplayer's happy, now. To run Orca, I have to move the binary back, then in i/etc/init.d as root, type pulseaudio --start I'll be putting together some scripts to manage this process. Thank you all for the wonderful help you gave. This is a wonderful group. CraigMartin _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup