Re: [orca-list] Manually setting up Gnome or Unity in Archlinux, Gentoo or Debian

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

If you're only issue with Ubuntu is that it comes up muted, then you
should be able to fix that by using your dedicated media keys, if you
have them. Furthermore, the sound will only be muted when booting off of
the Live CD and then the first boot after your install. After that, you
shouldn't have any problems with your audio being muted at startup. I
had that problem with Maverick and Natty, and I just did the above. I
was able to install both without sighted help, and once I turned up the
volume after the install everything was fine. Fortunately, I didn't have
this problem at all with Precise.

On 31/08/12 16:09, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> Dear,
>
> I have just bought a new machine. I thought of installing Ubuntu 12.04
> on it, but the live CD apparently doesn't fit well on the machine, e.g.,
> sound comes up muted. In addition, I like more customizabe distros, and
> I have installed ArchLinux and Gentoo in the past.
>
> I want to set up a minimal desktop, not necessarily for daily use, but
> mainly for maintenance purposes. For example, I want the GParted
> partition editor, since console apps like parted cannot resize NTFS
> partitions. When I last tried ArchLinux and Gentoo, it was about time of
> Gnome 2.30 and 2.32 and I had some problems I couldn't solve. I didn't
> know how to configure Orca for administrative tasks, I couldn't make
> Orca speak on GDM, and I didn't know how to make applications launch
> with root privileges when called from a menu, like Ubuntu does, and
> instructions on the Orca site were outdated.
>
> Thus, I'd like to know what is for the moment the best desktop you would
> indicate in terms of reliability and access with Orca, that is not hard
> to set up in a distro like ArchLinux or Gentoo or Debian? Do you know
> the current necessary steps to make applications like GParted to launch
> seanlessly as root, like in Ubuntu?
>
> Thank you,
> Cleverson
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