grml

grml

[Ned Granic]

Hi all,

I checked and downloaded the grml from their site, but their documentation seems to be very unorganized and scattered all over the place.
SO my q is how to boot the cd with a software synth if there is one, and how to switch to a desktop that is supported by a software screen reader?
Or, at least, please point me to a good documentation place where all of these things are explained.

Many thanks!

                    Ned

Re: grml

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Ned, I think some of what you want is in a message to this list on 24 February.  I'll insert the relevant part of it.  It helped me, once my speakers were connected correctly.

On the grml.org site, there's a wiki link, and from that an accessibility link.  I've generally found GRML documentation to be decent, although there sometimes seem to be gaps in it--gaps, at least, for somebody with my level of knowledge.

Hope this helps.

Al

Here's the message excerpt:

> Now, the question about the software speech.  GRML comes with eflite
> and flite.  It works with speakup, and here's how you do it.
>
> You might need some sighted assistance, the first time, but I don't
> think you will if you can hear the drive spin.
>
> first step: put the disk in and start the machine.  The drive will
> spin for a short time, then stop.
> Second step: When the drive finishes its first short spin, you need to
> enterthis:
> grml swspeak
> You need to be sure that you spell it right, or you will end up having
> to reboot in order to try over.
> third step: Listen for the sound to come up.  It will not be loud,
> because GRML only brings up the mixer setting for the alsa pcm device
> to 75%.  You will year the words:
> finished activating software speakup, just run swspeak when booting
> finished
> You will know that you are successfully into the speech interface when
> this happens.  fourth step: When the boot sequence is almost finished,
> you will hear the words:
>
> finished booting
>
> Now, enter swspeak and wait a while to see if you can hear the system
> come up talking.  You will need to do this:
> fifth step: enter this:
>
> aumix -w 100
>
> This will bring the sound all the way up.
>
> Now, if all went well, you should be ready to do something with it.
>



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Granic" <ngranic@cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: grml


> Hi all,
> 
> I checked and downloaded the grml from their site, but their documentation seems to be very unorganized and scattered all over the place.
> SO my q is how to boot the cd with a software synth if there is one, and how to switch to a desktop that is supported by a software screen reader?
> Or, at least, please point me to a good documentation place where all of these things are explained.
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
>                     Ned
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Re: grml

[Doug Smith]

Ok  the simple way to boot GRML into software speech is to do this: 

When you start the cd, just enter 

grml swspeak 

after the drive finishes its first short spin.  This will set GRML up
to go into the swspeak mode.  When you hear the message: 

booting finished

just enter swspeak

and you will be in the root account.  You will need to bring your
sound all the way up to 100% by doing this: 

aumix -w 100

Now, you are in the text mode or command line shell and you are ready
to work.  You need to become the non-priviliged user to loomk around.
Just do this: 

su grml

You are the non-priviliged or grml user.  

As far as a graphical desktop, I don't use opne.  I cannot tell you
which ones will work with software speech.  However, I hope that
ghetting you into the speech will help you.  



Hope this helps. 




-- 
Doug Smith: C.S.F.C.
Computer Scientist For CHRIST

aumix -w (was: grml)

[John Heim]

From: "Doug Smith" <bdsmith@buncombe.main.nc.us>
>You will need to bring your
> sound all the way up to 100% by doing this:
>
> aumix -w 100
>
This is something I've been meaning to ask about for some time.  What's up 
with the -w and -W options to aumix?
 Or maybe I should ask what is pcm and pcm 2? I have one machine where I got 
no sound until i said 'aumix -w 100' and another where I had to use the 
capital W. The -v flag didn't do anything until I set the -w flag.
What the heck is pcm and why can't I just ignore it? :-)

Re: aumix -w

[Doug Sutherland]

pcm means pulse code modulation.
In terms of aumix think of it as the DAC audio output.
That is, the digital to analog converter output of sound card.
pcm and pcm2 are two outputs, not present on all cards,
most will just have one. The -w is DAC output level for the
first DAC (pcm) while -W is same for the second DAC (pcm2).
You can't ignore pcm because it's the DAC output level.
The master level (volume) is downline from the pcm levels.

John Heim wrote:

This is something I've been meaning to ask about for some time.  What's up 
with the -w and -W options to aumix?
 Or maybe I should ask what is pcm and pcm 2? I have one machine where I got 
no sound until i said 'aumix -w 100' and another where I had to use the 
capital W. The -v flag didn't do anything until I set the -w flag.
What the heck is pcm and why can't I just ignore it? :-)

Re: grml

[Gregory Nowak]

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The method Covici gives is lots easier then playing guessing games
with the enter key, and I can confirm it works as advertised. Either tab space speakup_synth=xxx, or tab space swspeak for
software speech will do the trick. I've booted grml 2010 04 about 20 times recently in
this way, and haven't seen a keyboard remap problem once. As for how long to wait after post, give it 15
seconds or so. I usually put my ear close to the cd-rom drive, and
wait until it stops reading the disk (this doesn't mean stops spinning
way too late by then).

Greg


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51:37PM -0700, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> Naw, the new ones... just hit enter once, wait a bit, hit enter again,  
> wait a bit longer and hit enter... then type swspeak. If you type to  
> soon, you'll mess up your keyboard layout, which is really a pain--the /  
> key becomes -, etc.


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Re: grml

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Naw, the new ones... just hit enter once, wait a bit, hit enter again, 
wait a bit longer and hit enter... then type swspeak. If you type to 
soon, you'll mess up your keyboard layout, which is really a pain--the / 
key becomes -, etc.
On 12/14/2010 11:39 PM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> I think -- at least in the newer ones -- you have to press tab and then
> type speakup.synth=code.
>
> Jude DaShiell<jdashiel@shellworld.net>  wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how long to wait when booting up grml with speakup to
>> start doing things with the keyboard after the post beep?  I managed
>> to get grml up and talking only once and had a lot of trouble doing
>> that earlier today.  I'm not even sure holding the left shift key down
>> actually has any useful effect anymore with grml at least.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup


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Thanks,
Ty

Re: grml

[covici]

I think -- at least in the newer ones -- you have to press tab and then
type speakup.synth=code.

Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know how long to wait when booting up grml with speakup to
> start doing things with the keyboard after the post beep?  I managed
> to get grml up and talking only once and had a lot of trouble doing
> that earlier today.  I'm not even sure holding the left shift key down
> actually has any useful effect anymore with grml at least.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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grml

[Jude DaShiell]

Does anyone know how long to wait when booting up grml with speakup to 
start doing things with the keyboard after the post beep?  I managed to 
get grml up and talking only once and had a lot of trouble doing that 
earlier today.  I'm not even sure holding the left shift key down actually 
has any useful effect anymore with grml at least.

Re: grml

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Sadly, only the large 32/64 bits.
On 12/14/2010 3:32 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> What iso has the speakup support built in?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>


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Thanks,
Ty

Re: grml

[Kerry Hoath]

Both the 32 and 64-bit full-sized images have speakup in them. It is not 
in the medium or small images.
Regards, Kerry.

On 14/12/2010 6:32 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> What iso has the speakup support built in?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

grml

[Jude DaShiell]

What iso has the speakup support built in?

Re: grml

[Scott Howell]

Just curious, I've been reading a bit about this distro, not  
extensively, but a bit on this list. So, is there any advantage of  
running this distro over Debian or any other distro? Maybe its just  
another distro, but I am curious all the same.

tnx


Scott
s.howell@verizon.net



On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

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> Charles Hallenbeck said the following on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at  
> 06:22:39AM -0400:
>> You install it by typing:
>>
>> grml2hd
>>
>> Ain't that neat?
>
> Yes it is very neat except for that the script had an error of  
> sorts in it. Somewhere in the code where it is supposed
> to determine if you have enough disk space. I had to hack it and  
> just put in a hard coded value in there because the
> /1024 line was causing an error. Once I did that all was well with  
> the install. After installing I had to boot back from
> the live cd and change around the partitions because I wanted /var  
> and /home to be on different partitions and the
> grml2hd script does not ask about any of this. I'm not complaining  
> about that. I'm sure it's designed to get a basic
> system up and running on the one single partition with minimal  
> effort and it did do just that. Using it now in fact.
>
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Re: grml

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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Charles Hallenbeck said the following on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:22:39AM -0400:
> You install it by typing:
> 
> grml2hd
> 
> Ain't that neat?

Yes it is very neat except for that the script had an error of sorts in it. Somewhere in the code where it is supposed 
to determine if you have enough disk space. I had to hack it and just put in a hard coded value in there because the 
/1024 line was causing an error. Once I did that all was well with the install. After installing I had to boot back from 
the live cd and change around the partitions because I wanted /var and /home to be on different partitions and the 
grml2hd script does not ask about any of this. I'm not complaining about that. I'm sure it's designed to get a basic 
system up and running on the one single partition with minimal effort and it did do just that. Using it now in fact.


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Re: grml

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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You install it by typing:

grml2hd

Ain't that neat?

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Re: grml

[Shaun Oliver]

if you wanted to however, could it be installed?
that in and of itself would present possibilities

-- 
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it'll be planet against planet, world against world, star against star! 
NO ONE WILL SURVIVE!"

Cremon: "But what if it rains?"
Gort: "Then it'll be held indoors. It's too late to cancel now anyway, 
tickets were sold out weeks ago."
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Re: grml

[Glenn at home]

I like it because you can run it from a CD, instead of installing it.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun.oliver@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 11:35 AM
Subject: grml


hi there.
I'm gonna have me a look at grml over the next few days. thanks for 
that.

-- 
Shaun Oliver

gORT: "I plan to have an intergalactic war to end all intergalactic wars!
it'll be planet against planet, world against world, star against star! 
NO ONE WILL SURVIVE!"

Cremon: "But what if it rains?"
Gort: "Then it'll be held indoors. It's too late to cancel now anyway, 
tickets were sold out weeks ago."
Cremon of the star corps.

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grml

[Shaun Oliver]

hi there.
I'm gonna have me a look at grml over the next few days. thanks for 
that.

-- 
Shaun Oliver

gORT: "I plan to have an intergalactic war to end all intergalactic wars!
it'll be planet against planet, world against world, star against star! 
NO ONE WILL SURVIVE!"

Cremon: "But what if it rains?"
Gort: "Then it'll be held indoors. It's too late to cancel now anyway, 
tickets were sold out weeks ago."
Cremon of the star corps.

Re: grml

[Michael Prokop]

* Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
> Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> writes:

>> this step gets easier too. And I'm currently working on sound output
>> during bootup so you will be informed when booting finished. And to
>> activate speechd-up/swspeak you will just have to run 'swspeak' in
>> future. This will start speechd-up and tune zsh settings as well so
>> speechd-up should be better to use.

> I realize it is trivial but on most of the boxes I work on I place a
> ctrl-g bell char in the boot-msg file for lilo and the issue file so
> there's audible feedback at the boot prompt and completion of the boot
> sequence.

Thanks for the hint. I noticed that ctrl-g is supported by isolinux
as well. I'll integrate as much as possible and will write some
documentation about it as well.

-mika-
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Re: grml

[Kirk Reiser]

Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> writes:

> this step gets easier too. And I'm currently working on sound output
> during bootup so you will be informed when booting finished. And to
> activate speechd-up/swspeak you will just have to run 'swspeak' in
> future. This will start speechd-up and tune zsh settings as well so
> speechd-up should be better to use.

I realize it is trivial but on most of the boxes I work on I place a
ctrl-g bell char in the boot-msg file for lilo and the issue file so
there's audible feedback at the boot prompt and completion of the boot
sequence.

  Kirk

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Re: grml

[Michael Prokop]

* <jaffar@jeffstudio.net> <jaffar@jeffstudio.net> wrote:

>> You mean you did install grml to your harddisk?
>> Did you successfully run swspeak in live-cd mode?

> Hi Mic.  I think i should clarify.  I was trying to install grml from cd, 
> and i was trying for a speech guided installation.  Cheers!

So you want to boot from live-cd to run grml2hd then?
Boot using 'grml swspeak' and when booting finished run 'speechd-up'
then.

BTW: I noticed that it seems hard for a few people to use swspeak on
harddisk installations as well. I'll try to find a way for you so
this step gets easier too. And I'm currently working on sound output
during bootup so you will be informed when booting finished. And to
activate speechd-up/swspeak you will just have to run 'swspeak' in
future. This will start speechd-up and tune zsh settings as well so
speechd-up should be better to use.

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Re: grml

[jaffar]

Hi Mic.  I think i should clarify.  I was trying to install grml from cd, 
and i was trying for a speech guided installation.  Cheers!
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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: grml


* <jaffar@jeffstudio.net> <jaffar@jeffstudio.net> wrote:

> I have followed the installation instructions with regards to
> installing grml.  At the boot prompt, i typed grml swspeak to use
> software speech, since my hardware dectalk synth is not connected
> to the pc.  After a minute or so, i type speechd-up.  I then
> waited for a voice response without any luck.  Have i made any
> typo when running the speechd-up command?

You mean you did install grml to your harddisk?
Did you successfully run swspeak in live-cd mode?

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Re: grml

[Michael Prokop]

* <jaffar@jeffstudio.net> <jaffar@jeffstudio.net> wrote:

> I have followed the installation instructions with regards to
> installing grml.  At the boot prompt, i typed grml swspeak to use
> software speech, since my hardware dectalk synth is not connected
> to the pc.  After a minute or so, i type speechd-up.  I then
> waited for a voice response without any luck.  Have i made any
> typo when running the speechd-up command?

You mean you did install grml to your harddisk?
Did you successfully run swspeak in live-cd mode?

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grml

[jaffar]

Hi folks.  I have followed the installation instructions with regards to installing grml.  At the boot prompt, i typed grml swspeak to use software speech, since my hardware dectalk synth is not connected to the pc.  After a minute or so, i type speechd-up.  I then waited for a voice response without any luck.  Have i made any typo when running the speechd-up command?  all help is greatly appreciated.  Cheers!

GRML

[ace]

Hello,

I have just received GRML, a CD-distro of Linux.  How do I get it to 
boot with Speakup?  I looked at the FAQ but didn't see any 
instructions concerning this.  Thanks.

Robby