Interestingly enough, I reinstalled the system, remembering to enable the virtual NIC and all came up talking as a result. Rather odd that... On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:51:07PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Don, > what virtualization software did you use? Currently, my Kali is running inside > Virtualbox with an audiocontroller of Puse and an emulated chipset of > AC97...While this worked in the installer, it does not seem to work in my new > system i.e., Orca does not come up talking by default as it supposedly should. > Any ideas as to audio parameters I should use instead in order to correct this? > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:05:41PM -0700, Don Raikes wrote: > > Igor, > > > > I just downloaded kali 1.1.0a and installed it onto a virtual machine. The installation went fine with speech. > > After the install finished and the system rebooted, orca started talking at the login screen. I pressed space on the "other..." button entered root as the user tabbed to the next control arrowed up once to select gnome classic as my desktop manager, and tabbed to the login button. I pressed that with the spacebar, and was prompted for the password. After entering the password and pressing enter, the gnome desktop came up with orca talking. > > > > I switched to a console window by pressing ctrl+alt+f1 and logged in as root (no speech was available at this point). > > It has been a long time since I tried to start Speakup, but I tried running espeakup but it said that it couldn't fine the softsynth driver. I don't remember how to load that driver so I stopped at that point. Speakup is installed, it is just a matter of loading the proper driver and starting espeakup. > > > > Once you get that started, or you could do it from a gnome terminal which would give you speech feedback while you work, you can modify the necessary files to have Speakup start automatically on boot and voila there you go. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Gueths [mailto:igueths@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:03 PM > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > Subject: Re: Kali Linux > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 06:37:21PM -0700, Don Raikes wrote: > > > Igor, > > > > > > I have been successful in getting kali to work on a virtual machine. The problem is that accessibility is not enabled by default. > > > In fact, I am not sure that Speakup is built into kali. I tried to get the kali developers to build it in but I think it got dropped somewhere along the way. > > > > > > > So they would build Speakup into the installer but not into the actual post-installed system? That doesn't make any sense. > > > > > > If I remember right, the system brings you to a gnome desktop and if you press alt+f2 to open the run dialog then type orca<enter> orca should start talking. > > > > > > > Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try on the version I have here and see if it works. > > > > > > The only caveat to this is that if you installed it with another user, then you have to login first. If you have a Braille display, you could press ctrl+alt+f1-6 and open a console window, enter root as the user and whatever the root password is then type brltty to launch brltty. After that you just need to adjust the /etc/default/brltty file so brltty starts automatically. > > > > > > > Yeah, unfortunately I lack a braille display so that's not a viable option. > > > > > > It has been a while since I used kali (maybe 4 or 5 months and I have > > > been working on my own customized version. If I can ever get my custom > > > iso to work, it will be accessible either installed or as a live boot > > > image, but life has gotten in the way recently :-) > > > > > > If you have any other questions about kali, I am happy to help. > > > > > > > Yeah, pesky lives...Who needs one of those? Anyway, iirc I had mailed you directly regarding Kali but perhaps that message got lost somewhere. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Donald > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Igor Gueths [mailto:igueths@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 6:24 PM > > > To: speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Kali Linux > > > > > > Hey all, > > > does anyone have experience with attempting to get this distro installed and working (http://kalilinux.org)? I got so far as to get it installed given that the installer is a fork of upstream Debian, however I am now unable to boot into the new system. I'm hoping to be able to get some eyes to help poke at it soon, however if anyone has any ideas offhand they'd be much appreciated! > > > -- > > > Igor > > > > > > -- > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > > > MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > > > > > > -- > > Igor > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > -- > Igor > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
