Ok, here goes... I use UEFI systems and have no problems with my installers. Heres is what I would like for you to try to elimnate some problems: download the grml 64-bit image from http://grml.org dd it to a USB drive. go into the setup of your system and disable boot signature checking. try to boot the USB drive and see if 1: you hear the 3 tone beep at boot and then 2 if you hear the musical notes after the system boots. if you hear the musical notes, press 'q' and then type modprobe speakup_soft && espeakup then see if you get speech. Let me know how those steps go... You can email me directly and I could even do a call or chat with you if necessary. -- Kelly Prescott On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Marcel Oats wrote: > Hi, the usual sorry if it's been posted before and all that, I have browsed > the archives and haven't really found anything, or maybe haven't been looking > in > the right place. > I have Gigabyte's Z87X-UD5H board in a new system, and want to have linux on > it as well as Win8.1. This is the first board we have come across which > does not feature a legacy boot option; i.e. it only supports efi boot > partitions, though it will boot to an mbr partition after a lengthy pause. > I came across this situation before when booting the cd, but we were able to > boot the disk in legacy mode and give it the S parameter to start speakup > and install normally on another machine. > Here I cannot, though I can connect a braille display and use that during > the install. When typing s followed by ENTER, the braille is running the > text installer but there is no speech. > I understand the EFI boot loader is different and so forth, but am wondering > if something is not being passed correctly? > It's just the usual Realtec soundcard and so forth, which seems to be > supported no problem on other machines, but USB audio doesn't work here > either, and I remember reading a year or so ago that this part was broken in > uefi mode; is this correct? > Interestingly (and I know this doesn't work but actually wonder why) if we > make a bootable USB with this netinst ISO, the machine boots from that, we > get the beep, but there is no speech. The interesting thing, is that if we > boot it on another machine which comes up talking when I boot the cd on it, > the USB version of the same installer does not speak. It works, but no > speech. > I'm alright with braille during the install if I have to be, but when > completed it doesn't speak when the new system is booted, so what is the > best way of getting speakup running on the system so as I can access the > CLI? > > Thanks for any help. > Marcel > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
