Hi Liz, Have you tried Debian images from Samuel's page? http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/espeakup/ Regards --- On Mon, 3/14/11, Liz Hare <doggene at earthlink.net> wrote: > From: Liz Hare <doggene at earthlink.net> > Subject: Still need advice ALSA/Intel onboard s5520sc > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 8:59 PM > Hi, all, > > I'm still trying to figure out how to get Linux installed > on this machine with the crazy Intel 7.1 HD audio. > > I tried the Arch distribution > > TalkingArch-2010.05-netinstall_x86_64.iso > > and got a boot error in spite of trying to burn the CD > slowly, and trying it several times. > > Since I really wanted Debian > > (espeakup-squeeze-amd64.iso), > > I tried borrowing eyeballs to just install Debian 6.0.0, > but after a few? menu selections I got an error that > the speech synthesizer couldn't be configured. > > Any suggestions on the best way to get this thing running > so I can actually get some work done on it? Is there any > distribution with the most recent ALSA drivers (1.0.24) and > speech? If not, would I be better off getting an external > USB sound card-- are those supported with espeakup? > > Thanks for any ideas, > Liz > > > Liz Hare PhD > Dog Genetics LLC > doggene at earthlink.net > http://www.doggenetics.com > > On 3/10/2011 4:29 PM, Christopher Brannon wrote: > > Liz Hare<doggene at earthlink.net>? > writes: > > > >> Which version of ALSA did that distribution have? > It's 1.0.21 in the > >> version of Debian I'm trying to install. > > > > Hi Liz, > > The versions on my CD are as follows: > > alsa-utils 1.0.23, > > kernel 2.6.33. > > These are old by ArchLinux standards.? It's time > to make a new CD.? The > > current versions in our repositories are: > > alsa-utils-1.0.24.2 and kernel 2.6.37. > > > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
