FreedomBox ot?

[Tom and Esther Ward]

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 at charter.net>
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.
>
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>
> --
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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