some beginners questions

some beginners questions

[Kenny Hitt]

, I finally got Debian installed.  It took me for ever to get email working using Fetchmail, Mutt, and Exim.  I have a question about sound support in debian.  I download the sound package, but it isn't clear.  Will I have to add sound support to my kernel, or is the sound package a module?

Thanks in advance.
          Kenny

Re: some beginners questions

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Can you tell us which sound package it was that you downloaded?

Geoff.


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Some beginners questions

[Eric Scheibler]

Hello,

I started to use speakup under Debian Squeeze and I have a few beginners
questions.

If I move up the cursor one line with speakup + u, how can I jump to the
beginning or end of the line? At the moment I stand somewhere and must
search the beginning by pressing speakup + j until I'am there.

Is it possible to turn on the word echo, so that speakup reads the
current word after pressing space?

At the moment all non letters are pronounced in english. Is there a
translated version of the file i18n/characters for other languages
especially for german? If not does someone work on it?

I read your documentation file and found the list of shortcuts to
control speakup. I'am a laptop user and sadly I only could find the key
bindings for the desktop layout. I also tried speakups help system but
the key listing is incomplete. Could someone tell me the laptop key
bindings for the following commands?
1. cursor tracking mode (numpad *)
2. mark (/) for cut and paste

I also want to change the mapping of some keys. But I can't find the
file speakupmap.map in the directory
/usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/. I didn't compiled
speakup into the kernel myself but use modprobe to activate it (Debian
Squeeze with kernel 3.0.0). Is there a method to do the key mapping anyway?

I tried to install the extra package speakup-tools but I got the
following error message:
[ 8119.984075] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
[ 8120.000189] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115
What does this mean?

Thanks for help
Best regards
Eric

RE: Some beginners questions

[mike and bud]

hi,

regarding the speakup-tools it installed here just fine using apt-get
install speakup-tools. use debian sid.

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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 8:09 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Some beginners questions

Hello,

I started to use speakup under Debian Squeeze and I have a few beginners
questions.

If I move up the cursor one line with speakup + u, how can I jump to the
beginning or end of the line? At the moment I stand somewhere and must
search the beginning by pressing speakup + j until I'am there.

Is it possible to turn on the word echo, so that speakup reads the current
word after pressing space?

At the moment all non letters are pronounced in english. Is there a
translated version of the file i18n/characters for other languages
especially for german? If not does someone work on it?

I read your documentation file and found the list of shortcuts to control
speakup. I'am a laptop user and sadly I only could find the key bindings for
the desktop layout. I also tried speakups help system but the key listing is
incomplete. Could someone tell me the laptop key bindings for the following
commands?
1. cursor tracking mode (numpad *)
2. mark (/) for cut and paste

I also want to change the mapping of some keys. But I can't find the file
speakupmap.map in the directory
/usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/. I didn't compiled
speakup into the kernel myself but use modprobe to activate it (Debian
Squeeze with kernel 3.0.0). Is there a method to do the key mapping anyway?

I tried to install the extra package speakup-tools but I got the following
error message:
[ 8119.984075] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation [
8120.000189] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115 What does this
mean?

Thanks for help
Best regards
Eric
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Re: Some beginners questions

[lutz kaiser]

Hi Erik and List

yes espeakup can speak german too.
As Root:
nano /etc/default/espeakup< enter>
voice=de

Then ctrl+x "j" and Enter should do it.

Reboot and enjoy.

I cant say anything to Laptoplayouts


greatings
Lutz


Am 01.12.2011 14:09, schrieb Eric Scheibler:
> Hello,
>
> I started to use speakup under Debian Squeeze and I have a few beginners
> questions.
>
> If I move up the cursor one line with speakup + u, how can I jump to the
> beginning or end of the line? At the moment I stand somewhere and must
> search the beginning by pressing speakup + j until I'am there.
>
> Is it possible to turn on the word echo, so that speakup reads the
> current word after pressing space?
>
> At the moment all non letters are pronounced in english. Is there a
> translated version of the file i18n/characters for other languages
> especially for german? If not does someone work on it?
>
> I read your documentation file and found the list of shortcuts to
> control speakup. I'am a laptop user and sadly I only could find the key
> bindings for the desktop layout. I also tried speakups help system but
> the key listing is incomplete. Could someone tell me the laptop key
> bindings for the following commands?
> 1. cursor tracking mode (numpad *)
> 2. mark (/) for cut and paste
>
> I also want to change the mapping of some keys. But I can't find the
> file speakupmap.map in the directory
> /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/. I didn't compiled
> speakup into the kernel myself but use modprobe to activate it (Debian
> Squeeze with kernel 3.0.0). Is there a method to do the key mapping anyway?
>
> I tried to install the extra package speakup-tools but I got the
> following error message:
> [ 8119.984075] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
> [ 8120.000189] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115
> What does this mean?
>
> Thanks for help
> Best regards
> Eric
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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viele Grüße
Lutz

Re: Some beginners questions

[Eric Scheibler]

Hello Lutz,

> yes espeakup can speak german too. 
> As Root: 
> nano /etc/default/espeakup< enter> 
> voice=de 

Yes I know this. My question refered to the files located under
/speakup/i18n/. For example in the characters file you can find
something like "39 one" so that Espeak with the german voice speaks
"one" with a german accent instead of "eins" when I type "1". I could
correct this manually but maybe such files already exist in different
languages so the work wouldn't be necessary.

Best regards
Eric

Re: Some beginners questions

[lutz kaiser]

Hi Erik,
now i understand... <smile>
there is a setting that speakup passes all through...
something like speakup/synth_direckt=1 - but please note, i don't recall 
exactly.

greatings
Lutz


Am 01.12.2011 16:54, schrieb Eric Scheibler:
> Hello Lutz,
>
>> yes espeakup can speak german too.
>> As Root:
>> nano /etc/default/espeakup<  enter>
>> voice=de
>
> Yes I know this. My question refered to the files located under
> /speakup/i18n/. For example in the characters file you can find
> something like "39 one" so that Espeak with the german voice speaks
> "one" with a german accent instead of "eins" when I type "1". I could
> correct this manually but maybe such files already exist in different
> languages so the work wouldn't be necessary.
>
> Best regards
> Eric
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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viele Grüße
Lutz

Re: Some beginners questions

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:09:29PM +0100, Eric Scheibler wrote:
> I tried to install the extra package speakup-tools but I got the
> following error message:
> [ 8119.984075] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
> [ 8120.000189] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115
> What does this mean?

It means that you tried to mount a cifs/samba network from a remote
machine. This has nothing to do with installing speakup-tools as far
as I know. Unfortunately, that's the only question I can help you
with.

Greg


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Re: Some beginners questions

[Eric Scheibler]

Hello Greg,

> It means that you tried to mount a cifs/samba network from a remote
> machine. This has nothing to do with installing speakup-tools as far
> as I know. Unfortunately, that's the only question I can help you
> with.

Yes you're right. I tried to install the speakup-tools again and now it
worked. I don't know what this has to do with the samba share. maybe I
did something wrong yesterday.

Thanks and regards
Eric