Re: [orca-list] [off topic] help with ArchLinux

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

If debian squeeze supported your sound card, I'd be surprised if debian 
wheezy will not support your sound card.

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Julien Claassen wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>   First: thanks a lot to all of you. there were a few ideas, I might have
> considered, while experimenting and shame on me, I should have thought of them
> myself.
>   But now it is running. I reinstalled the whole system. I don't know, where
> the error was, but it was somewhere in the boot process itself. I can smell a
> running Linux from a mile away, but if it hangs in the boot process itself,
> I'm rather helpless. I would have heard the sound being enabled and since I'm
> a musician, I know how to test my soundcard as such. Perhaps I should have
> mentioned that as well.
>   As for brltty, there just is a bug, which is known and being worked on, but
> still not fixed yet. That is why, I will have to recompile. Otherwise BRLTTY
> would have worked. I certainly hear it starting on the installer CD.
>   In practise ArchLinux or Debian Squeeze are currently the only systems, I
> can install from scratch. And Debian Squeeze is old and the Debian releases
> are rather slow. This is nice for reasons of stability, but bad, if I want to
> test some of the graphical tricks.
>   All other distros don't support my soundcard and as I said, BRLTTY in its 
> version >4.2 is unhelpful right now. Still now the system is running, that 
> will be solved in a jiffy, once I get some more time off for that. :-)
>   Warm regards and thanks again!
>          Julien
>
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jude <jdashiel shellworld net>
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