it's definitely a timing problem. compile the alsa modules and you won't have a problem. I've never looked back. I have here a pentium 200 with 128Mb ram and it seems to fly quite nicely. hth On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Deedra Waters wrote: > it's a p4 1300 mhz with 128 megs of ram..... > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jason wrote: > > > that could be any number of things, what's your processor speed, physical > > RAM, and kernel version number? > > > > > I've noticed that when I play mp3s and read text in another window it > > > tends to make the mp3 sound distort, does anyone know what could be > > > causing this? because if I disable speakup and let it continu with > > > incomming text it doesn't distort the sound. I only get the distortion > > > with speakup running, any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver. "We realize we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." email: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435