The OP was asked earlier in the thread if sounds besides espeak could be played/heard, and the answer was yes. So, I for one assumed until this point that whatever the issue is, it isn't an install that doesn't boot. Greg On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 01:21:18PM -0600, jeremy wrote: > Nah, I'd just used the shortcut key to power on the vm and then the > shortcut to send input over to it. As far as any output, it was all > being sent to the vm's display. Either way, from the very little I > could see on the vm's window, it was pretty obvious that Linux was > never actually booting. After I'd power it on, it would take me to > something that looked like a grub menu and then right afterwards, > have a tiny bit of text in the top left corner that would never > change. Typically, on any other Linux installation inside VMWare, > once the grub menu displays and you make a selection, you'd see a > great deal of text scroll on the display. This scrolling would > normally take at least a few seconds and then either stop or clear > out when it reaches the end, leaving you with the login area where > you enter your username and password. > I'd also tried to do the same installation outside of VMWare player > and everything worked as I'd expect it to, so I figured it was > something caused by VMWare itself. > I figured it was worth mentioning here in this thread, as if it is > the same problem, Debian failing to boot, it would certainly explain > why there's no speech. :) > Take care. -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
