If I under stand you right, your having the same problem? When I go back into Linux later I'm going to have a bit of a mess around with it. Its not a permanant change so "hopefully" if it crashes on me I can just reboot and try again. I have a feeling though if you increase five to six it may improve slightly. I'll try it out of curiosity. Darragh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:25 PM Subject: Re: Apolo synthasizer problem > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > Hmmm, it does improve it somewhat, but does not cure it altogether. > > Cheers. > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >