Well, I am noticing something consistantly new while useing a dec-talk U S B with speakup. Let's say on tty6 I am running bittorrent-console, which is actively scrolling info. Meanwhile on tty3 I run ls *.torrent | less. When I switch over from tty6 to tty3 I see a blank line, just above, it says, "rtc lost some interrupts 1024HZ" Does this message mean much? Is it at all consistant with the flakey behavior of pitch-and-rate, where I think reading capital letters, the pitch gets knocked down to 81 and rate down to at least 4. At that point if I move both settings, it will endup back where I want them. Thanks in advance, o, I have 24 consoles now. Hart