Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp

["Parham" <parham16@gmail.com>]

Hehe my views are not what you think they are. In fact, it's very hard to 
get me offended in those fields.
Anyway. Apart from those things, by the way you are talking, seems that GRML 
is not a reliable Linux distribution.
Do you have a recommendation for better distrubutions than GRML then? I've 
heard Red Hat is good. I'm a type of a kind of intermediate user, and 
usually get what I need through the net. The only aditional stuff I would 
need to come with that would be a browser, a media player, an email program, 
and other beginning programs that are needed and are important.
 Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp


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> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:00:59PM +0330, Parham wrote:
>> First, Is it possible to instal GRML and not use the live CD?
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
>> second, is it possible to get free software synths other than what is the 
>> default one? That is good, but hard to understand.
>
> The default synth in grml is flite, but grml 1.0 does include espeak
> as well, which is much better than flite in my opinion. To get espeak
> going, you need to edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, and find
> the line that says
>
> DefaultModule flite
>
> , and change it to say
>
> DefaultModule espeak-generic
>
> . Then, you need to restart speech-dispatcher with
>
> /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher restart
>
> . I haven't actually gone through this while describing it, but just
> wrote it from memory, so I stand to be corrected. The grml developer
> who is on this list as well should really make it much easier to
> switch to espeak for those who don't like flite. Perhaps a shell
> script or alias that moves the default speechd.conf out of the way,
> and moves a modified one into place, and restarts speech-dispatcher.
>
>
>> Third, I should be able to switch to the GUI mode by pressing alt+ctrl+f7 
>> but that does not work?
>
> When grml starts up, at least the livecd, it starts into text mode,
> and doesn't launch the gui. Pressing ctrl+alt+f7 while in the gui
> would actually switch you into the gui, but since you're not in the
> gui to start with, it will just switch you into the 7th text
> console, if that's enabled. As for how to start the gui under grml, I 
> don't know, since
> I've never used that. At a guess, startx at the shell prompt should do
> it, but you'll need to either read up on that yourself, or someone
> else will have to explain that.
>
>> Fourth, is it possible to instal Linux on a computer that had Windows XP 
>> SP2 on it without data loss?
>
> That depends on what you mean by "without data loss". If you just mean
> without losing your personal files, then the answer is to back them up
> to somewhere, install gnu/linux, and move them back to the new
> gnu/linux system. If you mean without losing your xp install, then
> you'll need to resize the ntfs partition, and repartition your drive,
> which is prone to error, or wipe xp, partition the drive the way you
> want, and then reinstall xp, and install gnu/linux.
>
>> Anything else? I'm very open to questions as long as we have no political 
>> talk about nuclear stuff and such here. That's ok for me, but that would 
>> cause some problems in the list, not me.
>
> If your views on that are what I think they are, then you'd actually
> find a few people here which are sympathetic to those views, but
> you're right that such topics are probably not meant for this
> list. The kirkaganda list that kirk runs would probably be more
> appropriate for that kind of stuff. Kirk, is kirkaganda still
> running? I haven't seen anything from there lately.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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