I cant exactly who was good enough to send that back then but I kept it as it was so helpful. 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. I do have this happening at boot, but it was a while ago and I've not touched linux much since. Hope that helps Darragh -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Sheila Acock Sent: 08 November 2003 23:02 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Fragmented speech using Redhat 8.0 and Apollo2 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. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
