From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from spaceymail-a5.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B314C10A72 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:44:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tdsportable (97-118-31-32.hlrn.qwest.net [97.118.31.32]) by spaceymail-a5.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8689587085 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002901c8f03a$36672d40$4200a8c0@tdsportable> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <1217182416.13999.20.camel@lina-desktop> Subject: Re: intro and questions Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:43:37 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:44:01 -0000 Hello, regarding your bootloader question: You'll need to specify the synth in the kernel line, I believe. As for sound, have you installed the alsa driver for your card? either you've got a multi channel or alsa is not correctly configured--I had to replace the soundcard in my system a few days ago in order to get media and other sounds. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler@tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alonzo" To: Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 12:13 PM Subject: intro and questions > Hello everyone, > > My name is Alonzo. I'm from Texas and attend TexasA.M in Corpus > Christi. I am currently using Fc9 and am new to linux. I'm not totally > new, but I'm just barely getting back into linux after using four it > years ago. > > My computer is anAMD64 with a gig of ram. I have installed the 32 bit > version of Fedora with speakup motified. I'm wanting to use speakup, but > just had a few questions before I do so. > I Also have a laptop running ubuntu. So if it would be easier to convert > my laptop to Fedora, then I can do that as well. I just need input. > > > My questions are the following for fedora: > 1. When using the speakup connector, for ttsynth, I just coppy the make > file into /usr/local/bin/ > then creat an alias to start speak up. > > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf I beleive it's in /boot. To specify > the software speech at boot do I just scroll to the end of the file and > type speakup_synth=sftsynth then restart the computer and hope to have > speech at boot time? > > questions not related to speakup: > 1 When using the graphical end of Fedora in Gnome, I'm unable to hear > sound and speech at the same time. That is, if I play try listening to > an mp3, I would have to kill speech before hearing music. I tried > following the instructions to get espeak to work along side orca on the > wiki page, but it does not work. please advise on that as well. > > Thank you, > Alonzo > > note: > I can be reached the following ways > msn: mariachiac@aim.com > aim: mariachiac > > If the issues stated above are better solved by phone, then I can > provide that information as well. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 3301 (20080727) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >