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Oh man.  You don't need sound working for emacspeak to work unless you want
software speech.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn@home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: frustrated


> You are right there,
> But one thing leads to another.
> I still maintain that I don't want too much on here, at least as far as
> packages.
> But this all started out because I was starting to install Emacspeak, and it
> appeared that I should have sound working first.
> So I do want a couple utilities, as I just installed Lynx, so I can get
> utilities for making it work easier, as opposed to constantly copying it
> over from my XP box via the network, and then moving them in Debian.
> But even at this point, if it all came crashing down, I would not be
> devistated, but who knows, next year I may have built up more stuff on here.
>
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
> Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 1:31 PM
> Subject: Re: frustrated
>
>
> iAnd, is this same machine that you only wanted to run an ftp server on
> last month? So, you chose Debian because Fedora would require you to
> download 4 iso images?
>
> Didn't this start out as "which distro is better?'
>
> What do you say about that now, half a month later?
>
> Glenn at home writes:
> > When I looked into it, both on this list, and on the www, there was little
> > to no mention of oss, and it began to sound like Alsa is better.
> > Glenn
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> > To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review
> > system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 1:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: frustrated
> >
> >
> > OK. So we've established you have the OSS drivers.
> >
> > Now, the other question in my last email--there were two questions.
> >
> > Why alsa particularly? Why isn't OSS good enough?
> >
> > Glenn at home writes:
> > > I got 3 lines that refer to emu10k1
> > > input
> > > sound
> > > midi
> > > and the midi line is the only one with a Y at the end, the other 2 have
> > > an
> > > M.
> > > Glenn
> > > Try this:
> > >
> > > grep -i emu10k [config.filename]
> > >
> > > If that comes back with "yes" or "m", then your kernel comes with the
> > > OSS drivers, not ALSA, which would be expected in 2.4 kernels.
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Janina Sajka, Chair
> > Accessibility Workgroup
> > Free Standards Group (FSG)
> >
> > janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
> >
> > If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different
> > problem.
>
> -- 
>
> Janina Sajka, Chair
> Accessibility Workgroup
> Free Standards Group (FSG)
>
> janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
>
> If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
>
>
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