I have a Dell Pentium 3 with a 2004 BIOS on board that I received from a family member and have been trying to get Debian wheezy Linux to run and it almost does. To complicate things, I use the new kernel speakup modules as a computer user who happens to be blind. This is actually the first new version of Debian I have gotten to more or less work in a year. The speakup modules provide a screen reader to read the consoles and this actually does work in command-line mode. If I am root, I can get mplayer to work just fine even while speakup is reading the screen. There seems to be some issue with pulseaudio and the Intel ICH5 sound card which otherwise does seem to work. BTW, you don't really want speakup reading the screen while mplayer is running. It makes a mess of things but proves that more than one audio stream can be processed at a time. Anyway, I have yet to see what a working pulseaudio instance does so I appreciate any constructive suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
