Hi, Thanks. I guess that's what I'll have to do. Thanks. Dave. On 5/18/15, Rob <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
