This sounds great. Please let us know when you made that final iso? TIA, Willem On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, John Heim wrote: > Yes, it speaks via speakup and espeak. > > Last night I added wireless tools and set it so that you don't have to login > on tty0. I haven't posted a new iso with these changes yet. But when I do, you > should be able to boot with this cd, wait for it to start talking, and then > start typing in linux commands. > > I actually made my first real use of the CD last night. I was listening to an > episode of Nova on my laptop and all of a sudden, sound went out. I had no > speech, no audio of any type. Even catting a sound file to /dev/audio gave me > nothing. I rebooted, still nothing. But I rebooted with the live CD I made > (blindI or whatever I settle on for a name) and it did speak. So via this live > CD, I was able to determine that there is nothing wrong with the laptop > itself. > > With the laptop, that means that the live CD has booted 3 out of 4 computers > I've tried it on. I think it probably booted the 4th but without speech. I > don't know for sure. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reinhard Stebner" > <reinhard.stebner@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "'Linux for blind general discussion'" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:11 PM > Subject: RE: Two out of three ain't bad > > > > How does it speak? Are you using speakup? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > > On Behalf Of John Heim > > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:51 AM > > To: Linux for blind general discussion > > Subject: Two out of three ain't bad > > > > Well, I have my first very, very preliminary attempt at making a live rescue > > > > disk done. Version 0.0.0.0.0.1. I was able to boot it on 2 of the 3 > > computers I tried. Two out of three ain't bad. It comes up speaking and I > > was able to fdisk a hard drive with it. I'm not actually suggesting you try > > it yet unless you are really, really desperate. But if you want to give it a > > > > whirl, you can download the iso at > > > > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/stuff/cdrom.iso > > > > You will have to log in as root with the password blindI. Note the capital > > I. > > > > The password is one idea I had for the name. My ideas for names: > > > > 1. blindI -- as in "blind install". It doesn't look as if blindi is a word > > > > in any language so it would be easy to google. > > > > 2. marcol -- A guy who played for the Packers in the 70s. This happens to be > > > > the name of the machine I started the project on > > > > 3. grmln -- It would be pronounced "gremlin". Also easy to google. > > > > Actually, version 0.0.0.0.1 isn't based off grml. I made the iso via > > bootcdwrite. But I am thinking going back to trying to modify the grml iso > > might be smarter. I tried modifying my live CD from the "Fully Automated > > Install" open source project. I'd already modified it to add speech. But it > > boots off an NFS mounted root. I thought I could put the root on the CD > > fairly easily but I couldn't figure that out. So that approach turned out > > to be a dead end. > > > > Advice, comments welcome. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list