found temporary fix for 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 software speech problem

[Sean McMahon]

What's the priorty mean?  How do you change this?  is this distro specific?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
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.
>
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