Adam Myrow, le Sun 31 May 2009 19:08:39 -0500, a ?crit : > To reproduce it, simply echo something to the serial port that > the Dectalk is on. Then don't do it :) That is a basic flaw in the way speakup is currently done: it doesn't interfere correctly with using the serial port with other applications. > I originally noticed this because of the HAL daemon, (hald.) > Apparently, it opens serial ports during its initial startup. Augh. I wonder the reason why they do such things, it can not but interfere with a lot of things. Samuel