The strangest thing I found when installing Ubuntu Edgy Eft from the live CD with sighted assistance on my old machine was that even though I used the screen reader option, Orca wouldn't speak at all before the installation, but it came right up after I logged in after the reboot. It doesn't seem to be running too bad for 256 mb of ram on a 1 gig processor. I haven't done a lot with it yet though because of a bad spare keyboard that has letter keys that stick together. I think I will replace it with a KVM switch because I also got my wireless keyboard that is fairly new broken trying to reset it, because I must've poked the recessed button wrong. I think now that it's installed things will work fairly well once I replace Festival with Dec Talk or something. ----- Original Message ----- From: "tony seth" <lp800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:51 PM Subject: Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues > Hi all: Since we're on the subject of thinkpads, I've got a bit of a > poser too. First, I've tried a few different distros on this critter, > and here's the thing... > I can get grml to boot, but, it doesn't pick up the doubletalk when I > specify it to the grml prompt, however, when I am finished booting, and > echo it to /proc/speakup/synth_name, it comes right up. > So, I thought I'd try it with slackware, and no dice, even after the > boot process completes, I know it completes because I can run the eject > command and it releases the cd from the drive. Is this a bios problem, > or is there someplace else I should be looking? By the way, I did get > the 6.1 ubuntu to work too, but I like my text console better just > now... any help would be most welcome, as I'm running xp right now, I > kinda' liked it when I found out that xp won't even see a linux > partition so now I know that when I reinstall it on this beast I can do > a duel-boot on it and use it to test the linux version of Audio Quake > and still play my winders-based games too... > Thanks much! > > -- > Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. > www.freedombox.info > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
