Hi, Cheryl. I think your problem is do to not having enough processor power and ram. For example My new Linux box is a 2 GHZ Pentium with 512 of ram and Freedombox is working fantastic on it. I also noticed a dramatic difference with other Gnome applications. So processor speed and ram really count with x based stuff. I believe I saw somewhere on the site you needed at least 400 MHZ to run it, but that might be for the Windows version and not the Linux version. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:58 PM Subject: Re: FreedomBox ot? > My main problem is that freedombox is as slow as molasses for me; I mean > several minutes between speech outputs; really, I could take a nap!!! > Which leaves me not knowing what is happening; am I going to hear > something eventually or have I goofed up or been disconnected. Plus the > speech for me is painfully slow word by word, not very intelligible, and > has some kind of distortion; can't explain it; maybe like some of those > old movie soundtracks or something. My machine is 500 megahertz amdK6 > processor; I've run gnopernicus and gnome on it some. I don't know if the > beta is just like this or if something on my system is really slowing it > down. My audio on computer and via internet is fine so it shouldn't be an > audio/soundcard issue. > Also, I'm wondering if there is someplace to look for info on working > choices, commands, what the choices in the preferences menu do, etc. > finally, I don't think I've been able to talk to freedombox yet, though > text entry does work, albeit very slowly. I may not have my sblive mike > settings right for that or something. > Any input on these issues would be appreciated. > Thanks. > > > > -- > Cheryl > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
