Two situations are a bit puzzling after installation for me. 1) on booting the system it doesn't matter what is in syslinux.cfg, enter must be hit to turn sound on and finish the login. I've adjusted prompt from 0 to 1 and it had no effect. The second puzzle is a bit more troublesome and has to do with espeak itself. I cannot hit the gray enter key and have espeak talk anymore through the sound card without rebooting the system. For speakup, this is only supposed to be a temporary silence key, not a permanent kill key. Other than those two puzzles, I finally got archlinux up and installed using syslinux. One final piece I'd best add, I put amixer -D hw set Master 92% unmute into /etc/rc.local and it seems to work pretty well there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash