system with speakup software already installed?

[Kitty Litter]

Kerry,
I followed your instructions and was able to create all the speakup modules 
in vibuntu 1.2 which I installed on an unused partition from a memory stick. 
My audapter hardware synth worked as expected but softsynth had problems. I 
am using gnome speech with espeak and the original pulseaudio from vibuntu 
1.2. When it does work, it chops a little of each letter or the first word 
on a line. Sometimes I get messages about not able to open /dev/dsp. I don't 
know enough about alsa or pulseaudio to fix this. Also the espeakup daemon 
in /usr/bin is espeakup without the d like it used to be.
A few days ago I did install the speakup-source package and tried the 
module-assistant which never compiled correctly.