Try running it with a niceness of -20. That's what i do. TO be fair though, GRML isn't the most stable of OS's, as it is primarily a boot disk. HTH, Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Hinton" <keithint38@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 5:26 PM Subject: Does anyone know why software speech will just die for no particularreason? > Hi all, I sent a message about my software speech dying for no reason. > I have not yet reached a solution or eaven began to understand why it dys. > The sound-card works, etc. > I'm just curious as to why the software speech just suddenly dys. > If anyone can help out with this, let me know. > Regards, > --Keith > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup