Howdy, Fortunately or unfortunately, this is the time to call for sighted assistance, I believe. It's a shame thhat not all machines work as they should--most are supposed to, and in the main most do. Apart from that, I'm not sure what other suggestions I might have for you. It's a little hard to figure out what's happening. Sorry to be unhelpful, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:36 PM Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu > What I haven't thought of is the modem. I have no onboard sound > connectors, > but I got a voice capable modem that has nothing, not even a phone line, > hooked up to it. When I got my new machine and gave up 98, it could be > working fine and I'd come home after school to have to power-cycle it > because it just always suddenly quit responding to anything whenever it > felt > like it. I hope it isn't just freezing while trying to boot the CD as I > know > it's not the disk's problem because it works on this machine with the > Turtle > Beach card, as a live CD. I wish I knew what the error is or if the volume > isn't just all the way muted by default? I could probably find a > text-based > talking disk to reformat the drive free of the old stuff that was still > there, but I doubt the CD cares what is on any hard drive. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:54 PM > Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Sound Blaster Live Value is in fact supported on the live CD. I happen >> to have one myself. Your problem may be that you have onboard sound that >> is being automatically chosen by default. Try plugging into your onboard >> audio for the install. You can always change it later by blacklisting >> its driver, which I have done, so I can tell you how to do. But for now, >> your best bet is to use your onboard audio while using the live CD. >> >> HTH, >> Lorenzo >> - -- >> I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. >> - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFGEcHeG9IpekrhBfIRAqwMAJ4hx4AD7iuKUlQ3TAg8WktnppfDbACgn+Pk >> iDnS1HdRTFAnjpAvFihV4F0= >> =W8IA >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
