Hi, Doug! I've tried repeatedly to use swspeak, but so far have failed. My speakers apparently are connected, and their volume high enough that I should hear them if they're getting anything. Under Fedora, Kudzu seems to find my sound card, though it, too, seems unable to give me software speech output when I try to run Emacspeak. How would I determine whether the grml CD also finds it? (Ordinarily, I boot that up with my tripletalk usb.) Any other directions in which you can point me for possible answers? I once did have software speech (damned lousy though it was), since I used Debian 3.0, I think, for a few months. I therefore doubt it's a bad card, and figure I must be missing something. Thanks! Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Smith" <bdsmith@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:16 PM Subject: Re: Speakup Digest, Vol 41, Issue 47 > Ok, I will try to address two or three questions at one time. I > accidentally set this subscription up the wrong way so that I get the > digest form of all the mails from the list, so I will have to change > it in a few minutes. > > Well, question 1: the machines I tried the GRML disk on to see if they > would boot. The first one, a machine on display at a local Circuit > City store, was, indeed, an HP. It booted, then came the funny failure > message about the 128 samples. Someone on here said he tried to boot > ubuntu in an hp machine with an amd 64 X 2 dual core and it didn't > even boot. Well, that should solve that question. The second > machine, one on display at Sam's Club, might have been an HP, but I > didn't look on the side of the casing to see if the raised letters hp > were there, so I do not know. It might have been, but the message was > the same. > > Now, the question about the software speech. GRML comes with eflite > and flite. It works with speakup, and here's how you do it. > > You might need some sighted assistance, the first time, but I don't > think you will if you can hear the drive spin. > > first step: put the disk in and start the machine. The drive will > spin for a short time, then stop. > Second step: When the drive finishes its first short spin, you need to > enterthis: > grml swspeak > You need to be sure that you spell it right, or you will end up having > to reboot in order to try over. > third step: Listen for the sound to come up. It will not be loud, > because GRML only brings up the mixer setting for the alsa pcm device > to 75%. You will year the words: > finished activating software speakup, just run swspeak when booting > finished > You will know that you are successfully into the speech interface when > this happens. fourth step: When the boot sequence is almost finished, > you will hear the words: > > finished booting > > Now, enter swspeak and wait a while to see if you can hear the system > come up talking. You will need to do this: > fifth step: enter this: > > aumix -w 100 > > This will bring the sound all the way up. > > Now, if all went well, you should be ready to do something with it. > > Now, I haven't gotten that far in reading the digest yet, but there > was something on there about connecting to the net using GRML. You > can do it with w3m. It takes quite a bit of space to explain how to > do it exactly, but I will be more than happy to work with you. > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > -- > I use grml (http://grml.org/) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.3 - Release Date: 2/19/2007 > >
