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. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
