Re: [orca-list] oralux works great, ViBuntu doesn't work at all.

[Labrador <labrad0r edpnet be>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:03:14PM -0500, Josh wrote:
> Well I successfully burned the latest oralux image, put it into the cd 
> drive and it works great! however vibuntu 1.2 doesn't work at all, neither 
> on my wife's computer, nor on my own computer. So oralux must have 
> something that vibuntu is currently lacking.

As far as I know, Oralux had never been based on Ubuntu, its a Knoppix-based
CD.


> I do know oralux uses alsa 
> instead of pulseAudio. so in the next vibuntu please get rid of pulseaudio 
> and use alsa instead. oralux had no problems recognising my sound card. 

If you can start a normal Ubuntu and that workx, then there's no reason a
Vibuntu won't since that's a reamster, I repeat, a remaster of Intrepid, as
you probably read yourself in doc, announces and on the website.

> *please make it use alsa instead of pulseaudio.

Someone answered on this list that that problem has been fixed; so is it or
isn't it?

> *get rid of open-office, replace it with abiword, if that works with orca.
> *get rid of evolution, replace it with thunderbird.

We recently read on this list that Thunderbird wasn't working well together
with Orca.

> *also get rid of other big programs that the user can get on his or her own 
> using apt-get.

The initial goals is to remaster a Ubuntu with brailel and speech support
automatically activated, so wishlists are welcome but our first goals is
reached IMHO.

> I'm so excited I got a version of linux to work on my dell computer! 

I got a Dell laptop in the past and got several distros working with it, as
Vibntu works now with my Asus laptop, autodetects braille and starts
Gnome+Orca+Espeak.

Labrad0r:~$