You might try a hardware synth instead and when you compile the kernel you can fix it up the way you want. Also, I like to use ssh to install such a thing, I am pretty sure you can use some boot parameter on your net install to do this. On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:02:31 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Things run until they don't any longer. > When they don't run any longer speakup dies. The speakup cannot be > revived when this happens. > Also the system likely crashes since a poweroff command as root fails to > turn the system off. > Many times in order to start the computer I have to use the reset button > in addition to the power button on an 8 core 14gb ram amd system. > I tried restricting gentoo to one core with nosmp but that didn't help at > all either. > I tried with latest stage3 systemd file and latest gentoo-minimal disk. > So far as I'm concerned, gentoo at this time is uninstallable on this > system. > When speakup dies happens at random points during system installation too. > I got no idea what's going on and would like to know if I'm unique and > need a new computer or if this happens to others installing gentoo with > speakup. I've tried gentoo and gentoo-nofb kernels too. > The farthest I got in recent install attempts was the emerge-webrsync step > which failed because of a bad /etc/portage/make.conf file. > > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx