Re: [orca-list] Why can't speech work on some systems from Ubuntulive CD?

["Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>]

Oh, I have nothing to lose trying Feisty now as I just ran dist-upgrade and 
had the system lock up while it was setting up packages. Now it won't go 
back in so I can resume the process.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hermann" <steppenwolf2 onlinehome de>
To: "Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Why can't speech work on some systems from 
Ubuntulive CD?


> Hello Brent,
> I run Ubuntu Edgy on a similar machine. The live CD didn't work well on
> my system too, but the installation does.
> You should try out Feisty, which comes tomorrow in the final version.
> The test live CDs work on my system.
> If you need to reinstall Ubuntu Edgy, there are two ways:
> 1) You can download the alternate install CD, for details check the
> Ubuntu servers. They are no live CDs, but if you have a braille display
> connected via USB, you get braille support from the beginning of the
> procedure.
> 2) If you have an image program, use it. A good Linux tool is Partimage.
> To save your system with it, you should use a text only live CD, such as
> grml, a solution that comes from Austria:
> http://grml.org/
> You must use a braille display to get full acces to that system. It uses
> speech with Speakup, but I'm not experienced with that, and can't tell
> you whether it works as good as braille does.
> Hermann