While running yesterday's git version, on kernel 2.6.24.7, I am having the following issue. While playing a sound file (mp3 or headerless CPM (.cdr format)), using ALSA's sound drivers, and sox's play utility, I have the audio completely stop for 1 to 2 seconds, if I try to read a screen of data with read full screen, or if I just, for example, hit pagedown while in lynx. This is with a DEC express. I do much audio processing with my system, and this is going to kill me (well, it won't--I'll revert to an old version of speakup, running on 2.6.18, but then I lose my USB sound card, and have to live with the on board one). Oh, speaking of that, this is only tested through my on board sound, which previously gave me no such problems. I did set "high resolution timer" in the kernel config, if that matters. (Along with many other things, but that seems potentially relevant) An lsmod follows: Module Size Used by loop 17028 0 nls_iso8859_1 3968 0 nls_cp437 5632 0 vfat 12992 0 fat 52188 1 vfat sg 34912 0 sd_mod 29200 0 usb_storage 33536 0 libusual 16288 1 usb_storage ipv6 246500 12 ppdev 9220 0 lp 11716 0 af_packet 21316 2 bridge 53464 0 llc 7444 1 bridge fuse 47700 1 usblp 13632 0 pl2303 20612 0 usbserial 33320 1 pl2303 ide_cd 38944 0 cdrom 36128 1 ide_cd usbhid 29632 0 hid 35328 1 usbhid snd_intel8x0 32796 0 snd_ac97_codec 97184 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 1920 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss 41120 0 snd_mpu401 8040 0 snd_mpu401_uart 7808 1 snd_mpu401 parport_pc 27684 1 parport 35336 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc snd_pcm 75464 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss 16256 1 snd_pcm_oss rtc 12124 0 snd_seq_dummy 3588 0 snd_seq_oss 30848 0 snd_seq_midi 8288 0 snd_rawmidi 23520 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 7168 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 48080 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 21636 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 8204 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq pata_acpi 7232 0 ehci_hcd 31884 0 snd 51108 12 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 7328 1 snd ohci_hcd 23044 0 snd_page_alloc 10248 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm forcedeth 47372 0 usbcore 135404 9 usb_storage,libusual,usblp,pl2303,usbserial,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd i2c_nforce2 6336 0 i2c_core 23696 1 i2c_nforce2 fan 4612 0 nvidia_agp 8348 1 agpgart 33136 1 nvidia_agp evdev 11392 0