Interesting, Kirk, because what I get is exactly as you describe. For example, in my home directory, I often hear my name in my prompt as: ja ni n a That's pretty choppy. Unfortunately, it seems Fedora leaves this variable off, as you suggest for software speech. I'm running a 2.6.10 kernel, and the only "preempt" cvariable in the entire config is: CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set Kirk Reiser writes: > I am going to make a suggestion which may help your chopiness and may > not. The reason I say may not is because I don't understand all the > facts from what you folks are talking about. > > I have noticed with the newer kernels 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 software > speech is very disjointed almost like you only get a few letters or a > portion of a word at a time. This is do to a newly instituted kernel > configuration option called something like Big Kernel Lock > Preempting. Hmmm, let me go look it up exactly: CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL > should be set to no. The menu choice which is under processor > features looks like: Preempt The Big Kernel Lock. You would only set > this to no if you are using software speech because in most cases it > is wise to have it on. > > If you check your configuration and this is on which is the default > then when you turn it off you should have significantly better > software speech output quality at least. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
