Gaijin <gaijin at clearwire.net> writes: > compiled into the kernel, and running on a I7-930 Quad-Core CPU on a > SuperMicro X8STE motherboard with 24G's of Kingston memory. I use the > Orca screen reader for the GUI. Whoa! Twenty-four gigs of RAM, four cores, and sixty-four bits? I'm green with envy. I run a Celeron, 1 core, 2.5 GHz, with 512 MB of RAM. > [ 6.217153] speakup 3.1.3: initialized That's nearly a year and a half old. We can conclude that your troubles have nothing to do with recent changes to Speakup. Sorry I can't be more helpful. -- Chris