What's the priorty mean? How do you change this? is this distro specific? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bruzos" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup Mailing-list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:51 AM Subject: found temporary fix for 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 software speech problem > Hi all: > I had the same problem that some of you were discribing with the software speech and speakup. The speech was extremely > choppy and hard to understand. Kirk said on another posting that the problem was a kernel configuration option > called "Preempt The Big Kernel Lock". This option is found in kernels 2.6.10 and 2.6.11. I recompiled the kernel on my > desktop without this option and speech improved, but I did not want to recompile on my laptop, so I started playing with > other things. > I fixed the problem by changing the priority of my "speechd_up" and of "speech-dispatcher". I am running "speechd_up" with > priority 5 and speech-dispatcher with priority -5 and it works wonderfully. I think my speech is more responsive than it > ever has been. > Of course I have no idea why the changed priority helps with this problem, but it does. > > HTH > > David B. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
