festival slackware package?

[seth creature]

Hi all:

Just curious, I have a version of flite as a slackware package I got while 
running slackware 9.0, it's version 1.2.
I am now running 10.1, and I did the installpkg thing and flite seems to 
be working, at least when I use the test option to read a text file, but 
when I fire up gdm to run gnopernicus it doesn't come up talking, and I 
cannot think of what I may be missing.  I know the list is speakup 
oriented, so any responce should be off-list so I don't clutter it... 
thanks anyone who can enlighten me...
Cheereo!