[orca-list] OT: Need some help with installing Slint

[Eric Oyen <eric oyen gmail com>]

Hello everyone,

Well, I acquired and burned Slint version 14.2 to USB and went to install it on my laptop. Then I ran into an 
immediate problem: no speech. I have tried with ctrl-s, shift-s and any of the other usual commands that 
should work at the boot prompt. nothing. No sound, no accessibility.

My sighted roomie even tried to help, but because of his severe dyslexia, he was unable to make heads or 
tails of the screen.

So, here I am, totally blind, with a sighted roomie who can’t read and there appears to be no way to install 
without either a braille display device being plugged in or a hardware synths  that can be detected. Any ways 
around this that anyone knows?

-Eric