> I stand to be corrected, not having used slackware in a while, but I
> think you'll find that the cd/dvd-rom drive is still detected under
> slackware as /dev/hdx, so the ide-scsi emulation isn't why speakup is
> in the speakup.s, rather than speakup.i kernel, 

    Hmmm.  I don't remember where, but I heard they were using SCSI 
emulation for DVD-RW drives because some other program wanted some 
hard drive attention at the same time, and messed up the DVD.  The IDE 
module is still being used, but it's being filtered through the SCSI 
module, or something.  I didn't fully gather how things were being 
handled; just that they're now using SCSI for CD/DVD writing.  Maybe on 
the Slackware bug mailing list, because I do very little web surfing.  
I don't remember.  I knew they'd compiled everything into a single 
kernal for speakup, though.  Cory will have no problem with IDE 
modules, anyway, and I hope I spelt their name right.

> Well, since we're ranting, can you please either turn on line wrap in
> your mail client, or remember to hit the enter key once in a while? 

    Sorry about that.  Can't see it. <laughs>  As it is, I'm using NVDA 
with Thunderbird, and they don't work well together.  I have to save 
the email to a text file, quote everything manually, editting it with 
notepad, and send the text file as an attachment.  I can't even 
do an actual reply, as I can't read the stewpid HTML pass-through 
buffer to see what I've written, deleted, etc., so have to post 
everything as new messages.  Word wrap *is* on in notepad, anyway.  
I'll try ending every line with a carriage return though.  Thanks for 
the heads-up on it.  
    Best thing about ranting is someone else always points out what 
you're doing wrong, too.  At least 99% of the time, anyway. <laughs>  
Yanno if this doesn't work, I'm gonna have to edit things from Linux, 
right? <grins>  Lemme know how this one looks, because it's hard to 
tell how many characters notepad is using per line.

        Michael