Hi list: I've been playing around with the Debian Squeze snapshot from a couple weeks ago which includes Speakup. I'm using a Doubletalk on ttyS0. When the system speaks too much, it seems like the synth stops responding. I have to be careful not to run certain commands that produce n abundance of speech, such as looking at the installation messages as they go by. If I do not press ctrl or Numpad Enter quickly enough, the speech stops and no longer responds. The system seems to still work. Is their some parameter I need to pass to the kernel or some command I can use to bring speech back? I do have some other issues with Debian, so, I may consider converting to arch if some of my other issues are addressed. Any thoughts/ Thanks! __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5814 (20110124) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com