For that machine I would probably run GRML since it's text-based. My old latitude cpt (600mhz proc/324mb ram) runs it, so your machine should definitely do it. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:52:29PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am going to download the talking CD images mentioned > earlier this year on this list and have another go at a laptop I > have that is really touchy about getting a talking Linux > installation. > > This was my wife's laptop until she got a Mac a couple > of years ago and it did run Windows XP as well as any system > runs Windows. It has 256 megs of RAM and a 1-gig processor so it > is no slouch but it is about 6 years old now. > > As luck would have it, the last edition of oralux which > was out of date 2 years ago came up crowing and what passed for > the HD installation process did install oralux with speakup > although most of the bit about enabling speech turned out to be > incomplete and one needed to kind of kick things along a bit to > get it all to work but I did succeed. > > It is, however, not up gradable and many things dealing > with peripherals just don't quite work right no matter what one > does. > > I did try the ubuntu live CD with orca and it did find > the sound card because you can hear the bongo drums but the 256 > megs of RAM are not sufficient to make it all go when booting > from the live CD so I am hoping that a thinner live CD will be > the answer. > > In my job, I sometimes need to connect a RS-232 port to > a device that is either partly dead or off-line due to network > issues. A RS-232 dongle connected to the oralux laptop caused > that spelling contingency bug to rear its ugly head although one > could sure receive the data but it is only slightly more fun > than water boarding. A PCMCIA serial port didn't seem to be > recognized by kermit so I am hoping that at least some of these > problems will go away if the new ISO will work. > > Do any of these issues sound familiar to others on the > list? > > Stay tuned for more thrills and spills. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Linux is obsolete -- Andrew Tanenbaum
