Hi. The first thing I do after the install is to build my kernel, so I haven't experienced your problem. Since the speakup in Debian is out of date, it doesn't surprise me. Sorry this isn't more helpful. Kenny On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:13:05AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I am putting Debian Sarge on a new system here, and am starting with the > "speakup26" boot choice, which installs a speakup modified 2.6.8 kernel > initially. But on my system, the mark/cut/paste feature locks up the > computer requiring a hard reset to recover. Pressing 'mark' works fine, > but moving the cursor to the other end of the desired string and > pressing 'cut' kills the system. > > Actually I don't know exactly what gets killed, but there is no more > speech, and the keyboard is unresponsive. > > Has anyone else performed this installation? Was your experience the > same or different? I plan to replace 2.6.8 with 2.6.11 pretty quickly, > but if there is a quick fix to tide me over I would appreciate knowing > about it. > > Thanks, > Chuck > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (19% of Full) > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup