Hello, I remember seeing a comment that speakup 3.0.4 fixed the problem of slow response to certain review keys and that it was thought that fix also fixed the timeout issue which causes speakup to deactivate. I just tried my system on the start up (which seems to be a reliable way to cause the problem) and it happened. I have speakup as modules and pressed numpad enter to silence speech and didn't touch a key until booting finished and when I tried to use a screen review key I found speakup didn't talk. Looking at dmesg I found the message saying about too many timeouts. If it would be useful I have the output from dmesg (command issued was "dmesg >/dmesg.output"). Should I do anythig to get more detailed output for you? Michael Whapples