Hi, Please don't shoot me down or tell me to go and read the documentation. I was really keen to try Linux, and have spent many more hours than I ought to have done reading documentation, but I can't say it came together as a coherent whole, and I have had so many problems, I am feeling quite discouraged. Having read the HowTo about installing Redhat with Speakup, I decided to take the plunge and buy a box set in the hope that I could get a system up and running to play with fairly quickly. I won't bore you with details of the problems encountered, but I now have Redhat 8.0 running on a system with an Athlon 850 processor, with 250 mb memory and an Apollo2 synth. The trouble is, the speech is so disjointed I am having difficulty making much sense of it. Looking back through the List archive, I see that a couple of people reported a similar problem using Apollo2 and Redhat 8 back in February. There did not seem to be a completely satisfactory solution, though one person said that a suggestion involving "delay_time" and "jiffy_delta" had helped to some extent. I have signed up for Janina's pre-Techshare Linux workshop, but I don't think I'm going to make much progresss until I can get reasonable speech, so any help in sorting this problem would be much appreciated, remembering that I am a complete newbie and need things spelt out in words of one syllable. Thanks. Sheila.
