Hi. I tried using the speakup.git -- did a git pull this morning and I could not boot at all, it gets to exactly a certain point all the time and then hangs with no message. I am using speakout -- I wonder if the flow control is not working or whether -- and I think this is what is happening that speakup puts the kernel to sleep and never wakes it up. I am not using spinlock. The speakout uses rts/cts for flow control. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com