speakup not work in debian etch

[Michał Zegan]

hello
I hawe downloaded debian etch 4.0 iso image, whih include speakup.
I burned cd from this iso and i booted this cd successfully.
On the boot prompt, i am typing:
speakup speakup_synth=apolo
I an pressing enter and waiting, but speakup do not work properly!
My speech synthesizer works, but i dont hear a boot up messages and anything else.
Why speakup does not work?