Owen: Re: Software Speech Synth with Speakup -- Help, please.

[Christopher Moore]

Hugh,
I'm still not sure whether you're loading the usrdev driver.  
In your /usr/src/linux/.config file you should have the following line:
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_USRDEV=y

Also, the line directly below that defines the default speakup driver;
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DEFAULT="none"  (in my case).

Why don't you send your lilo.conf.  I'd like to have a look at it.  

Chris