Fragmented speech using Redhat 8.0 and Apollo2

[Sheila Acock]

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.
>
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