Andrew, attached is a patch that fixes the loss of echoed characters in two common cases: 1) tty output buffer is full due to lots of output and 2) tty is stopped. It was discussed on the list here (and I had supplied an earlier rev of this patch at the end of the thread last week - no further comments were posted): http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121788756631983&w=2 I have been testing on several machines for the past week or so, and things look good. Thanks, Joe