Excelent, that works a lot better. If I devided and multiplied the values by six seven or more would it get better? Its still not continious. If that would work it would make the apolo a lot easier to listen to. I suppose the next step is writing a script. But How? with what? Thanks again Darragh ----- Original Message ----- From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" <wacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:26 AM Subject: Re: Apolo synthasizer problem > Kirk nailed this one. HZ is set to 512. To compensate, you'll need to > change the timing variables for Speakup. In the /proc/speakup/apollo > directory, you'll se files called jiffy_delta and delay_time, among others. > Note that I might not have spelled apollo the way it is in the > /proc/speakup directory. Use the "cat" command to display the value > contained in the two pseudo files. For example: "cat jiffy_delta" and "cat > delay_time", without the quotes, of course. To change a value, use the > "echo" command. For example: "echo 15 > jiffy_delta" and "echo 80> > delay_time". Using cat, find the value of jiffy_delta. Multiply the value > by five. For example, if the value of jiffy_delta is 3, make it 15. Then, > find the value of delay_time. Divide it by 5. For example, if you find > 400, make it 80. If this works, you can write a script to make this > happen on boot. > > > > HTH. > -- > Bill in Denver > > > On 1 Oct 2002, Kirk Reiser wrote: > > > What processor are you using? Also, what version of the kernel? This > > almost sounds like you are suffering from the new hz = 1000 instead of > > 100 change. > > > > Kirk > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >