I found a nasty bug right off with speakupconf. It still doesn't work quite right, at least with the Dectalk USB in RS232 mode. All you have to do to see it in action is do "speakupconf save" followed by "speakupconf load." After that, no uppercase characters will be echoed. That is, you will get silence when typing any uppercase character, or going over it in review mode. Also, the bug involving slowness with the Dectalk still exists. To reproduce it, simply echo something to the serial port that the Dectalk is on. You will get an I/O error, and the shell will hang until you hit control-c. Also, the Dectalk will now respond very slowly, taking about 5 seconds to speak after any keystroke. I originally noticed this because of the HAL daemon, (hald.) Apparently, it opens serial ports during its initial startup. I had to disable it in order to avoid this bug. So, for me, this new Speakup didn't fix anything.
