Re: Notebooks and Distros

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It should work fine.


Josh wrote:
would a dell inspirn 1501 work ok with jaws?
Josh

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Keenan" <tkeenan79@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Notebooks and Distros


On Feisty, I didn't even get to any kind of environment. The CD only spun for about 5 seconds after I selected Orca on the boot options screen and continued booting. On Edgy, it actually booted almost completely, but apparently it couldn't start x-Windows. It said something like "unable to start x-server. Gnome is possibly misconfigured." then something about video. My system uses a Ge-Force 8400 chip which is fairly new, that's probably why. Right now, barring some new info about this laptop, it's looking like I might go with a Dell Inspiron 1501, which is the type with an AMD chip. I've been reading on linux-laptops.net that it works well.


Thanks.





John Heim wrote:
So just to be clear, you tried to boot from the ubuntu live CD and tried to get it to run orca? One thing you might try is to see if it will boot without speech. You can start speech after it boots into graphics mode. I don't know the exact key sequence but it's on the ubuntu web site. It's something like F2 to open a run-command window, type'gnome-terminal', that opens a command window. Then you type 'su -' to become root. Then you run orca by typeing 'orca'.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Keenan" <tkeenan79@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:04 AM
Subject: Notebooks and Distros


Hi all,
First off, if there's a better spot to ask this, please let me know.

I just tried to install the Ubuntu Feisty Live CD without sighted assistance on my Asus notebook. I got a few seconds passed the accessibility selection and it stopped cold. Someone told me the screen was completely blank. Hah, did I hink that was going to be easy? Apparently Ubuntu doesn't work well with Asus notebooks, especially the sound. Does anyone know of notebooks that work particularly well with a certain flavor of Linux, preferably one that's not too cumbersome to set up?

I just bought this notebook a week ago, so it's not too late to return it. Of course, I'd rather keep it if possible.

Thanks, all.


-Tim



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