Re: GRML.

Re: GRML.

[Martin McCormick]

	I don't have the system infront of me that has oralux
with speakup installed, but I did have the exact same problem.
The system in question has both the amixer alsa-based audio
mixer plus the older oss-based aumix applications on it. I was
able to change volume with aumix.

	The configuration for your kernel does allow for the oss
API as well as the recommended alsa modules so you may have
aunix and that should change your volume.


Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
Jim Green writes:
> A friend in the local LUG burned me a CD of GRML.  I gave it a try.
> Typed grml swspeak, at what I thought was the right moment.  No sound.
> Waited a while-- about five minutes.  Typed grml swspeak, again.
> Presto!  It talked just fine, but way too loud.  Blew me right out of
> my chair!  The speakUp docs say:
> 
> spk key_1 = vol_dec
> spk key_2 =  vol_inc
> 
> I tried this, though had little hope; didn't work in Oralux.  Didn't
> work here either.  The numbers went up and down, but the volume stayed
> way too loud.  Anybody know a fix for this?  Thanks.
> 
> Jim
> 
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Re: GRML.

[Jim Green]

Thanks, if nothing else works I'll continue to hack through the man pages.  But thanks for the help.

Jim

grml

[mike]

Hi,

Does anyone have a copy of grml 2011.05 it seems they have removed gcc and
the other dev libraries are removed. If you have it or no ware to get it
could you please let me no. I've tried looking on their site to no avail.

Re: grml

[Jude DaShiell]

If speakup had a command that would search a list for an item with unique 
attributes you would almost certainly have had the cursor on English 
rather than Austrian.On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Josh wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Anyone on this list use grml?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes.  I installed it to my hard disk in its own partition.  I'm reasonably 
> happy with it, but I'm still having problems with X.  If you run grml2hd to 
> install, do "aptitude update" and "aptitude upgrade grml2hd" first.  You 
> might want sighted help for the install because Speakup doesn't always tell 
> you what the default choice is, even with cursor tracking.  I kep hearing 
> "OK" even though there was a big list of language choices on the screen. 
> When I got to the language selection, US English was the default but the 
> cursor was on Austrian.  I had someone reading the screen so he told me that 
> English was the default, saving me the time of arrowing down through a bunch 
> of choices only to find that was the default to begin with.  Especially be 
> careful if installing to hard disk as it will overwrite whatever partition 
> you select and again it doesn't always read correctly.  I ran parted first to 
> resize and set up my partitions for the install but I don't know if that's 
> necessary or not.  You'll also have to pick a boot loader, either lilo or 
> grub.  Read the man pages to decide which is best.  Also, you asked about 
> text games a while ago.  It doesn't have any interactive fiction interpreters 
> that I found, but look at the bsdgames package.  That's probably what you 
> want.  Do "aptitude show bsdgames" and "aptitude show nethack."  Nethack is 
> another very popular text game but takes some getting used to in terms of 
> navigating.
>
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Re: grml

[Tony Baechler]

Josh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone on this list use grml?



Hi,

Yes.  I installed it to my hard disk in its own partition.  I'm 
reasonably happy with it, but I'm still having problems with X.  If you 
run grml2hd to install, do "aptitude update" and "aptitude upgrade 
grml2hd" first.  You might want sighted help for the install because 
Speakup doesn't always tell you what the default choice is, even with 
cursor tracking.  I kep hearing "OK" even though there was a big list of 
language choices on the screen.  When I got to the language selection, 
US English was the default but the cursor was on Austrian.  I had 
someone reading the screen so he told me that English was the default, 
saving me the time of arrowing down through a bunch of choices only to 
find that was the default to begin with.  Especially be careful if 
installing to hard disk as it will overwrite whatever partition you 
select and again it doesn't always read correctly.  I ran parted first 
to resize and set up my partitions for the install but I don't know if 
that's necessary or not.  You'll also have to pick a boot loader, either 
lilo or grub.  Read the man pages to decide which is best.  Also, you 
asked about text games a while ago.  It doesn't have any interactive 
fiction interpreters that I found, but look at the bsdgames package.  
That's probably what you want.  Do "aptitude show bsdgames" and 
"aptitude show nethack."  Nethack is another very popular text game but 
takes some getting used to in terms of navigating.

grml

[Josh]

Hi,

Anyone on this list use grml? 

Josh

Re: GRML.

[Jim Green]

Hi tony,

thanks, and I mean it.  While I'm thinking about it, Orllux is installed on that Hard Drive.  Could that be confusing GRML?

Jim

Re: GRML.

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

Sorry if I seemed unhelpful, but each sound card is different.  I had a 
similar problem but for me it was too quiet.  I tried entering the 
amixer command that I found with Google but it didn't work.  I had to 
read the man page and experiment until it worked.  You can try these two 
commands though:

amixer set Master playback 25,25
alsamixer

The later is supposed to be interactive but it didn't do much for me.  
No guarantees on the former but that eventually worked for me.

Jim Green wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.  The man pages might have been usefull if
> I understood what I was reading.  Did I mention, I'm a relitive
> newbie?  I checked the info files on amixer, and they looked like the
> man pages.  I don't have a set of speakers with volume controls.  I
> plugged in a headset, and let it hang around my neck.
>
> Instead of filling up this list with off topic questions, I'll get a
> local LUG member to take a look at this.  Otherwise, I can always pay
> the LUG member I paid to get this Oralux system in the first place.
> Unfortunatly, one way to cure computer ills is to throw money at them.
> Anyway, again thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Jim
>
>
>   

Re: GRML.

[Jim Green]

Hi Folks,

Thanks for the suggestions.  The man pages might have been usefull if
I understood what I was reading.  Did I mention, I'm a relitive
newbie?  I checked the info files on amixer, and they looked like the
man pages.  I don't have a set of speakers with volume controls.  I
plugged in a headset, and let it hang around my neck.

Instead of filling up this list with off topic questions, I'll get a
local LUG member to take a look at this.  Otherwise, I can always pay
the LUG member I paid to get this Oralux system in the first place.
Unfortunatly, one way to cure computer ills is to throw money at them.
Anyway, again thanks for your suggestions.

Jim

Re: GRML.

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

Yes, do this:

man amixer

That worked fine for me once I figured out the controls.  You could also 
turn down your speakers.

Jim Green wrote:
> A friend in the local LUG burned me a CD of GRML.  I gave it a try.
> Typed grml swspeak, at what I thought was the right moment.  No sound.
> Waited a while-- about five minutes.  Typed grml swspeak, again.
> Presto!  It talked just fine, but way too loud.  Blew me right out of
> my chair!  The speakUp docs say:
>
> spk key_1 = vol_dec
> spk key_2 =  vol_inc
>
> I tried this, though had little hope; didn't work in Oralux.  Didn't
> work here either.  The numbers went up and down, but the volume stayed
> way too loud.  Anybody know a fix for this?  Thanks.
>   

GRML.

[Jim Green]

Hi Folks,

A friend in the local LUG burned me a CD of GRML.  I gave it a try.
Typed grml swspeak, at what I thought was the right moment.  No sound.
Waited a while-- about five minutes.  Typed grml swspeak, again.
Presto!  It talked just fine, but way too loud.  Blew me right out of
my chair!  The speakUp docs say:

spk key_1 = vol_dec
spk key_2 =  vol_inc

I tried this, though had little hope; didn't work in Oralux.  Didn't
work here either.  The numbers went up and down, but the volume stayed
way too loud.  Anybody know a fix for this?  Thanks.

Jim