Hi Jim and all: We made major changes to the keymap for speakup to accommodate the numlock handling code. I think if you use loadkeys to load the speakupmap.map from the /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup directory you'll find it works correctly. On the other hand if you just replace the map you load at boot time with the one from that directory it will be fine as well. If you have modified the map to add some of your own keys, then you will need to edit the newer speakupmap.map and add your changes. I apologize for the radicle change but it was necessary. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061