From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@doorpi.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:14:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002101c77d79$deb1af50$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413025147.2857.56278@rif.myfreedombox.com>
The strangest thing I found when installing Ubuntu Edgy Eft from the live CD
with sighted assistance on my old machine was that even though I used the
screen reader option, Orca wouldn't speak at all before the installation,
but it came right up after I logged in after the reboot. It doesn't seem to
be running too bad for 256 mb of ram on a 1 gig processor. I haven't done a
lot with it yet though because of a bad spare keyboard that has letter keys
that stick together. I think I will replace it with a KVM switch because I
also got my wireless keyboard that is fairly new broken trying to reset it,
because I must've poked the recessed button wrong. I think now that it's
installed things will work fairly well once I replace Festival with Dec Talk
or something.
----- Original Message -----
From: "tony seth" <lp800@myfreedombox.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues
> Hi all: Since we're on the subject of thinkpads, I've got a bit of a
> poser too. First, I've tried a few different distros on this critter,
> and here's the thing...
> I can get grml to boot, but, it doesn't pick up the doubletalk when I
> specify it to the grml prompt, however, when I am finished booting, and
> echo it to /proc/speakup/synth_name, it comes right up.
> So, I thought I'd try it with slackware, and no dice, even after the
> boot process completes, I know it completes because I can run the eject
> command and it releases the cd from the drive. Is this a bios problem,
> or is there someplace else I should be looking? By the way, I did get
> the 6.1 ubuntu to work too, but I like my text console better just
> now... any help would be most welcome, as I'm running xp right now, I
> kinda' liked it when I found out that xp won't even see a linux
> partition so now I know that when I reinstall it on this beast I can do
> a duel-boot on it and use it to test the linux version of Audio Quake
> and still play my winders-based games too...
> Thanks much!
>
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