interesting trplayer problem

interesting trplayer problem

[Igor Gueths]

Hi all. I obtained some wavs to see if I can play them with trplayer, but
when I do so the player seems to be playing to a muted channel. I can tell
this because when I hit ctrl+c, it says stopped at 16 seconds for example.
What channel (s) does trplayer try to use for wav output? I tried turning
up the mono, dsp, and wavetable channels. It still doesn't work. However,
I can play mp3s with trplayer perfectly, as well as play them in Freeamp.
Does anyone know if trplayer uses anything other than the pcm channel?
Thanks for any info!

Newbie Installing Redhat

[Liz Hare]

>

Hello,

I'm a newbie installing RedHat for the first time, thanks to Janina, who 
provided me with the CDs.

There is a problem with the installation, it gets to one package (Something 
about USB, but unfortunately I didn't write that down) and stops.  It tells 
me to hit enter to try again.  THe problem is that it never works, and it 
doesn't give me any other options, like getting this package and installing 
it later.  I have to abort the installation because all it will let me do 
is try getting this package again.  (I suspect there's a problem with the 
disc, although it also offered the possibility of a bad package.)

I don't have a fast connection so  Ican't download a whole new disk.


What I"m wondering now is, how hard is it really to buy the RedHat CDs, 
install them, and then install Speakup.  The Speakup website says you 
should have some experience playing with the kernel, which I don't have.  I 
realize I will also have to hijack a pair of eyeballs for a few hours.

Liz



Liz Hare, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
B47 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255 2380
eh51@cornell.edu

Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Janina Sajka]

Hi:

More information would be very helpful. I know it's a pain, but we should be able to figure this out.

As I understand you, this happens during package installation, which comes after the disk has finished formatting,
correct?

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Liz Hare wrote:

> 
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a newbie installing RedHat for the first time, thanks to Janina, who 
> provided me with the CDs.
> 
> There is a problem with the installation, it gets to one package (Something 
> about USB, but unfortunately I didn't write that down) and stops.  It tells 
> me to hit enter to try again.  THe problem is that it never works, and it 
> doesn't give me any other options, like getting this package and installing 
> it later.  I have to abort the installation because all it will let me do 
> is try getting this package again.  (I suspect there's a problem with the 
> disc, although it also offered the possibility of a bad package.)
> 
> I don't have a fast connection so  Ican't download a whole new disk.
> 
> 
> What I"m wondering now is, how hard is it really to buy the RedHat CDs, 
> install them, and then install Speakup.  The Speakup website says you 
> should have some experience playing with the kernel, which I don't have.  I 
> realize I will also have to hijack a pair of eyeballs for a few hours.
> 
> Liz
> 
> 
> 
> Liz Hare, Ph.D.
> Research Associate
> Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
> B47 Morrison Hall
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> (607) 255 2380
> eh51@cornell.edu
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Liz Hare]

>As I understand you, this happens during package installation, which comes 
>after the disk has finished formatting,
>correct?


Correct <grin>

Liz


Liz Hare, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
B47 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255 2380
eh51@cornell.edu

Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Janina Sajka]

I can only think of two possibilities:

1.)	Formatting did not get accomplished correctly and you're running out of space on /usr or

2.)	The CD ROM is bad.

If it's the latter I will happily send another with apologies.

If it's the former, we'd have to go back with another round. But, that would give us the opportunity to get it right.

Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Alex Snow]

Try running a fdisk to see if you have anything, and delete your primary
partition. That's my solution to all hd problems.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie Installing Redhat


> I can only think of two possibilities:
>
> 1.) Formatting did not get accomplished correctly and you're running out
of space on /usr or
>
> 2.) The CD ROM is bad.
>
> If it's the latter I will happily send another with apologies.
>
> If it's the former, we'd have to go back with another round. But, that
would give us the opportunity to get it right.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Error Message was: Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Liz Hare]

Here's the error message I get when installing packages from the second CD:

Error

The file
/mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/usbview-1.
0.2.i386.rpm cannot be opened.
THis is due to a missing file, a
bad package, or bad media. Press
<return> to try again.

OK



Note it gets stuck in a loop becaue the only choice is to try again.

Thanks,
Liz



Liz Hare, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
B47 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255 2380
eh51@cornell.edu

Re: Error Message was: Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Janina Sajka]

OK. It's the second disc. I can send you another tomorrow.

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Liz Hare wrote:

> 
> Here's the error message I get when installing packages from the second CD:
> 
> Error
> 
> The file
> /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/usbview-1.
> 0.2.i386.rpm cannot be opened.
> THis is due to a missing file, a
> bad package, or bad media. Press
> <return> to try again.
> 
> OK
> 
> 
> 
> Note it gets stuck in a loop becaue the only choice is to try again.
> 
> Thanks,
> Liz
> 
> 
> 
> Liz Hare, Ph.D.
> Research Associate
> Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
> B47 Morrison Hall
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> (607) 255 2380
> eh51@cornell.edu
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Dumb Questions: Searching archives and OCR question

[Liz Hare]

Hello,

Two newbie questions:

Is there any good OCR software for Linux yet?

I was trying to inform myself about this by searching the archives of this 
list.  I found it kind of hard, because I couldn't find any sort of search 
function on the archives page-- only several ways to download either the 
entire archive.  I still don't have Linux up and Both WIndoze machines at 
home and at work seem to choke on the large file of all the archives when I 
try to download it.  Is there somewhere else I should be looking for 
searchable archives?

Thanks,




Liz Hare, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
B47 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255 2380
eh51@cornell.edu

Re: Dumb Questions: Searching archives and OCR question

[Janina Sajka]

I don't know that I'd call it good, but it does exist. And the command line interface works just fine for me.

Essentially, I create a directory (if I'm scanning more than a page or two), and use:

	scanimage to get graphics files and
	gocr to ocr them.

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Liz Hare wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Two newbie questions:
> 
> Is there any good OCR software for Linux yet?
> 
> I was trying to inform myself about this by searching the archives of this 
> list.  I found it kind of hard, because I couldn't find any sort of search 
> function on the archives page-- only several ways to download either the 
> entire archive.  I still don't have Linux up and Both WIndoze machines at 
> home and at work seem to choke on the large file of all the archives when I 
> try to download it.  Is there somewhere else I should be looking for 
> searchable archives?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Liz Hare, Ph.D.
> Research Associate
> Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
> B47 Morrison Hall
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> (607) 255 2380
> eh51@cornell.edu
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Saqib Shaikh]

I can't solve your problem but maybe I can answer your question:

If you decide to buy the CDs then go ahead and do so. Then you should be
able to use the speech-enabled bootdisk from your faulty CD to boot the new
CD. Therefore you'll get speech from the bootdisk, but will use the new CDs
which haven't been modified for Speakup. Then afterwards, you could probably
get an RPM of a Speakup kernel and install a talking kernel. And until you
get the talking kernel you can also boot from the disk and mount the root
partition from the newly installed system.

As a newbie this may all sound quite complicated so please don't hesitate to
email me: ss@saqibshaikh.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Hare" <eh51@cornell.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:29 PM
Subject: Newbie Installing Redhat


>
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a newbie installing RedHat for the first time, thanks to Janina, who
> provided me with the CDs.
>
> There is a problem with the installation, it gets to one package
(Something
> about USB, but unfortunately I didn't write that down) and stops.  It
tells
> me to hit enter to try again.  THe problem is that it never works, and it
> doesn't give me any other options, like getting this package and
installing
> it later.  I have to abort the installation because all it will let me do
> is try getting this package again.  (I suspect there's a problem with the
> disc, although it also offered the possibility of a bad package.)
>
> I don't have a fast connection so  Ican't download a whole new disk.
>
>
> What I"m wondering now is, how hard is it really to buy the RedHat CDs,
> install them, and then install Speakup.  The Speakup website says you
> should have some experience playing with the kernel, which I don't have.
I
> realize I will also have to hijack a pair of eyeballs for a few hours.
>
> Liz
>
>
>
> Liz Hare, Ph.D.
> Research Associate
> Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
> B47 Morrison Hall
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> (607) 255 2380
> eh51@cornell.edu
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Newbie Installing Redhat

[Ed Barnes]

Hi Liz.
If you can remember the name of the problematic package why not try 
downloading only this package or all packages whose names are very close in 
resemblance from the speakup ftp site.
Copy the contents of both disks unto your system into separate folders.
Then burn the contents of each respective folder including the packages 
which you chose to over-write unto two new cds if you have a burner 
available to you.
I realize that my suggestion necessitates you either having a second system 
available or you being able to boot into another operating system on the 
system unto which you were trying to install Red Hat so I know that my idea 
may not even be plausible for you as I don't know you personally so I don't 
know the resources you have available to you from a technical view point.
     The reason I make this suggestion is that downloading a couple of rpm 
packages shouldn't take terribly long even if you don't have a fast connection.
If you don't have another system that is running at the moment and or a 
burner I'd probably recommend attempting to obtain more cds with speakup 
built-in as the install's pretty easy.
Alternately if we are looking at a situation where you can't modify the cds 
you already have I'd probably make a boot disk using the boot.img file 
located in the /images directory on rh modified cd 1 and then install using 
a non-speakup modified set of rh cds.
Pardon me for making an assumption here but if you are an research 
associate at an University they probably have people there who could get 
you a set of non-speakup modified rh cds and if you provide them with the 
boot.img file found in the /images dir on cd 1 which Janina sent you 
creating a speakup-enabled boot floppy so the machine would talk during the 
install process using the command rawrite boot.img then specifying a: which 
is likely the location of the system's floppy drive is a snap.
Therefore you could boot the system and it would talk and the install would 
resemble the one you've already attempted one time.
     I hope this is somewhat helpful though I am relatively new to Linux 
myself so don't have any profoundly wonderful solution to offer.
The only thing I'd probably add to what others have echoed already is that 
if you were stuck without the ability to highjack a pair of eyeballs for an 
hour or so you could probably do the install without help so long as you 
took a bit of time to familiarize yourself with Speakup's default key 
assignments.
    And, if you're new to Linux yourself and won't have anyone around when 
you install the system you might be best off not installing any x-based 
packages as you will want your system to re-boot in a talkative state.
And lastly, if you want my opinion I'd only buy the non-modified rh disks 
in the event you were absolutely stuck. This list is a very helpful bunch 
or at least I think so in my month or two of hanging out on it so I'm sure 
if you are eager to learn and put a bit of effort in yourself  the group 
will do its best to get you up and running.
If I can help further by elaborating on my experiences installing RH as 
another newbie so to speak I'd be happy to do so.
Feel free to contact me via the list or directly using either: 
na007375@janus.northatlantic.nf.ca or edbarnes@superweb.ca.
   Have a nice day!
Ed Barnes

At 04:59 PM 20/04/2002, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm a newbie installing RedHat for the first time, thanks to Janina, who 
>provided me with the CDs.
>
>There is a problem with the installation, it gets to one package 
>(Something about USB, but unfortunately I didn't write that down) and 
>stops.  It tells me to hit enter to try again.  THe problem is that it 
>never works, and it doesn't give me any other options, like getting this 
>package and installing it later.  I have to abort the installation because 
>all it will let me do is try getting this package again.  (I suspect 
>there's a problem with the disc, although it also offered the possibility 
>of a bad package.)
>
>I don't have a fast connection so  Ican't download a whole new disk.
>
>
>What I"m wondering now is, how hard is it really to buy the RedHat CDs, 
>install them, and then install Speakup.  The Speakup website says you 
>should have some experience playing with the kernel, which I don't 
>have.  I realize I will also have to hijack a pair of eyeballs for a few hours.
>
>Liz
>
>
>
>Liz Hare, Ph.D.
>Research Associate
>Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
>B47 Morrison Hall
>Cornell University
>Ithaca, NY 14853
>(607) 255 2380
>eh51@cornell.edu
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup