Hi. It's always happened with speakup on this hardware regardless of speakup or kernel versions. That's why I am almost certain it's my hardware. Processor: 1.4GHZ AMD K7. The mother board uses the nvidia chipset. Don't remember the exact board model. Kenny On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:13:35PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote: > I can't reproduce this on my system. I have a fairly recent GIT > snapshot of Speakup. So, maybe it depends on some other kernel > options. I know that there are a lot of options that can have an > effect on kernel performance. Also, whether you have > hyper-threading or a multi-core processor would probably have some > bearing as well. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup