Re: [orca-list] orca response

[Christopher Moore <christopher h moore verizon net>]

Rich, see below.
I'll keeping working on it to see whether something else may be 
contributing to the sluggishness.  
Chris
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:35:47AM -0700, Rich 
Burridge wrote:
> Hi Christ,
>
> > Hello,
> > I've just begun to test with orca.  One of the first things I've noticed 
> > is slow response.  The only place where response is good is in teh orca 
> > preferences screen.  However, bringing up this screen takes maybe 15 
> > seconds, and quitting with escape take a long time before orca
> > acknowledges with speech or braille.  
> >  
>
> Can you give us more information please?
>
> 1/ What version of Orca are you running?
trunk from 3/16
> 2/ What version of Ubuntu are you running?
feisty: most of the gnome packages are 2.18 versions.
> 3/ Which speech synthesizer are you running?
espeak. I'm also running brltty8-dev
> 4/ What sort of PC are you running on?
amd duron 1.4ghz  512mb memory.  Maybe  some additional ram might help.
>   Processor speed? Amount of memory?
>
> Thanks.