> I guess I'll > try this kernel out for awhile and see what happens. I found the same here too. You might also find that if you alt + left arrow, to switch consoles. The system freezes. Here's what I did: Boot machine (debian unstable updated 21 July 2008.). Installed kernel image for AMD64 and speakup modules. Entered into menu.lst and rebooted. Logged in as root. modprobe speakup_ltlk. Found that the echo commands were giving errors. Pressing left arrow locked the machine. Rebooted machine and after loading speakup the same result with left arrow to ttyS11, for a second time. I use the UK key map. > Gena http://www.ready2golinux.com M0EBP