Hello all, Well, I think the latest kernel upgrade in Debian seems to have fixed the problem of irssi locking up the system every time. It no longer seems to lock everything up. <crosses fingers> Seems it may have been the kernel rather than SpeakUP this time. Still just a fraction of a sexond slow on saying keypresses and doing screen reads, but then again, I'm running a celeron CPU, and Debian is chock full of bloatware and perl scripts. <shrugs> Will let you know howw things progress as it goes. Lemme know if you can use any other info if needed.. Michael