From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.62]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKZr2-0003Gm-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 05:35:16 -0400 Received: from 208-59-170-65.c3-0.slvr-ubr2.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com ([208.59.170.65] helo=[192.168.1.101]) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 1BKZr0-0002T1-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 03 May 2004 05:35:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 05:18:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Crawford X-X-Sender: ccrawford@localhost.localdomain To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Help! The Dectalk PC is hosing my clock! X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:35:16 -0000 I wish I could remember my Jiffy_Delta and delay settings but I think they were the default settings. I do remember a bit of trouble in getting the dec pc to shut up with the control key but nothing serious. As was suggested by a message from someone else, I don't understand why you would have the problem you are having. The only thing about which I can speculate is perhaps a hardware interupt issue? On Sun, 2 May 2004, Adam Myrow wrote: > I'm using kernel 2.4.26 under Slackware 9.1 if that helps. Just to verify > that it is indeed the Dectalk, I turned off speech and used Brltty only to > read several emails, while repeating the same loop on another console of > comparing the date with the system clock. It stayed stable. As soon as I > started up the Dectalk speaking again, it started wondering again. When I > started typing this message, it was within a few milliseconds, and is now > over 4 seconds off. Since you were using it under Redhat, I'm wondering > if the Dectalk driver is tuned for Redhat's faster clock rate? I recall > when Redhat 8 came out, they tweaked a value having to do with the clock > speed of the kernel or something, and a lot of people had to adjust > jiffy_delta and delay_time in Speakup to compensate because it caused > their synthesizers to be choppy. I'm wondering if adjusting those values > might help? My jiffy_delta is 50, and my delay_time is 500 now, which are > default values. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Charlie Crawford