Re: [orca-list] new Versions of Sonar are out

[Jonathan Nadeau <j nadeau charter net>]

hey Glen,

i'm sorry it didn't work out for you. maybe you could try the Sonar mate
version and see if that works. Are you  burning DVd's or installing from
a usb stick?


On 05/01/2015 08:36 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> Hi,
> I downloaded the 686 again and again, it will not boot.
> Although I cannot see the screen well enough to read anything, no matter how 
> big it is, I can tell that it is still at the black screen.
> That is the way it was when it did not boot before, and my son said that it 
> just had a blinking cursor.
> But the control keystrokes did not work either.
> Other distros do boot on this system, so I have to conclude that it is a 
> limitation with Sonar.
> I was hoping it would work.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jonathan Nadeau" <j nadeau charter net>
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <GlennErvin cableone net>; <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] new Versions of Sonar are out
>
>
> Hello,
>
> yeah you can use the i686 iso. one thing you can try is maybe for some
> reason your system is either coming up muted or the volume is very low.
> So what you can do is press control and the letter m to unmute or press
> control and the up arrow to turn the volume up.
>
>
> On 05/01/2015 01:40 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have downloaded both the 32 bit and the 64 bit, of the recently offered
> > Sonar, and neither wants to boot on my system.
> > I have an Acer  laptop with an Intel dual core 1.7 GHZ with 2GB of RAM.
> > The 32-bit version reads as i686, while the 64-bit reads as X86.
> > The laptop normally boots to Vista, but I installed a 32-bit Vista on it, 
> > it
> > came with Vista, but it was a corrupt install, and the recovery partition
> > did not exist any more, and the product key was worn off, and that is why 
> > I
> > acquired it.
> > So I bought a 32-bit Vista for it, because it was cheap, and therefore, I
> > don't know if it originally had a 64-bit installed.
> > But I would think that the 32-bit i686 version would work.
> > Any thoughts?
> > Thanks.
> > Glenn
> > Known  as: Glenn, Lenny, or N0YJV
> >
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