Yes, but that keymap script could be overriding the keymap you compiled into the kernel. I'd do a "chmod -x" on it and reboot to see what happens. Both Debian and Redhat have given me fits with this. I had a normal Redhat distro with Speakup patched in and even when I disabled keytables, it still loaded a keymap that completely overwrote my Speakup one. With Debian, it loaded a keymap from 0.10 over the compiled in one even in the Speakup modified one. With Slackware, it doesn't load a keymap unless you tell it to. That's what I like about Slackware that others hate. It gives you a shell and says "have fun!" I prefer this because I can tune things just how I like. I've got a fast-booting Slackware system that makes even other Linux users surprised. Oh well, enough on distributions. Hope you're able to figure it out as that copy and paste is the best thing to ever be added to Speakup! As a side note, Jaws for Windows had this feature in 3.0, but they foolishly removed it in later versions! I sure miss it as you could cut and paste error messages that even sighted people couldn't. Hooray for Speakup!