Darragh, Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I will hopefully give it a try tomorrow. Thanks. Sheila. In message <000001c3a64f$16c96370$0100a8c0 at desktop>, Darragh <lists at digitaldarragh.com> writes >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 at braille.uwo.ca >[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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
