I never did get Orca working with a window manager like lightm, after
installing it from an already installed system. What I had to do was do a
fresh install of debian. I used blrtty, which allowed me to have
accessibility in the desktop later. I got speech in the login screen, after
the fresh install, but I don't know how that was done, so that I can
duplicate the steps without having to do a brand new install on my other
linux box.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Techswing33" <techswing33@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: Debian upgrade to Jessie
Hello,
I've done a fresh Jessie install. That went fine with speech, I've got
a console distro going that now I'd like to add the mate desktop to
and set it up so I can graphically log in. If anyone has this working
I'd appreciate some tips as I've been over the mate wiki which doesn't
seem to be working.
Thanks.
Dave.
On 5/18/15, Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What kernel are you running? I had no problems upgrading to Jessie on a
couple of servers here, but unless something changed recently, kernels
after
2.6.32 don't seem to work with hardware speech. Of course you aren't
using
a serial synth, so maybe it'll be fine for you. The upgrade went fairly
smooth for the most part and I would recommend upgrading. Be aware that
the
default init is now systemd which has a lot of dependencies, so if you
want
to stay with sysvinit or upstart, keep that in mind. One server is only
accessed with ssh, so it has no speech on it at all. The other is my
regular desktop machine, but I kept my 2.6.32 kernel due to the lack of
serial synth support in newer kernels. I didn't want to upgrade udev,
dbus,
etc, so I kept sysvinit on my desktop, but the remote server got a new
Jessie install with systemd and it seems fine. I did upgrade from Wheezy
to
testing, but due to unrelated circumstances, it got a fresh install,
however
that had nothing to do with Jessie or any Debian problems. Good luck and
let us know how it goes.
On 5/17/2015 7:26 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
finally realized Debian 8.0 Jessie is released.
I see nothing in a quick perusal of the release notes effecting
accessibility,
or anything else i care about, but-----
Using an old 1.3 gig Asus P2b with doubletalk PC internal.
Are there any risks in just doing a straight upgrade from currently
installed recently updated wheezie using
apt-get upgrade
Should I worry about backing up much, not really anything critical on
the
box.
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