Did you try Ubuntu? That is a Debian flavor. It can come up talking. When the disk spins up and stops, press the space bar to highlight English Press enter Press F5 for accessibility Press #3 for Speech Press enter twice, and it will boot up to the Ubuntu desktop with Orca talking. http://www.ubuntu.com/ HTH. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Hare" <doggene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:29 AM Subject: Still need advice ALSA/Intel onboard s5520sc 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
