I don't know if this problem is indicative of my braille-lite screwing up, but lately when it works as a synth for speakup, it goes into some kind of uppercase-proof mode. This happens frequently when I use a curses application like aptitude. However, if I just run command-line applications, it can run well for a while. In aptitude, it happens when I get to a catigory and hit enter on the main debian archive tree. This problem started happening one day after a power serge. While this problem is most likely just confined to my unit, I want to know if there some tests I could do on the linux end to see if some parameters are miss-configured. This problem also happens on my windows box, however, it happens on my linux box more frequently. Sean