Hm, is there any chance that you provide the output of "cat /proc/cmdline" and "px auxwww" after booting your problematic harddisk installation? Maybe it's possible for you to access the box via SSH?

When accessing the box via SSH please try to execute the following commands:

/etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start echo sftsyn > /proc/speakup/synth_name aumix -w 90 -v 90 -p 90 -m 90 nice -n -20 speechd-up

Does this help? (Capturing the output of all the commands would help us in debugging the problem as well.)

regards,

-mika-

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Hi Mika and listers, I got it solved now! it was very simple! I didn't think of having to be root to start speech. I thought it might be as simple as with the cdrom where the user doesn't matter! Sorry for troubling You with such a simple thing! Ernst