So you will know, I used talkarch.sh to download what I have on this end: cut here. #!/usr/bin/env bash # file: talkarch.sh - talkingarch download script #wget -bc https://github.com/alex19EP/talking-arch/releases/download/v6.1/TalkingArch-2020.04.27-x86_64.iso.sig wget -bc https://github.com/alex19EP/talking-arch/releases/download/v6.1/TalkingArch-2020.04.27-x86_64.iso gpg --verify TalkingArch-2020.04.27-x86_64.iso.sig TalkingArch-2020.04.27-x86_64.iso cut here. On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-releng wrote:
> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 12:31:43 > From: Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-releng <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: Alexander Epaneshnikov <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [arch-releng] talking arch wiki needs an update > > hello Jude. > > 07.06.2020 18:09, Jude DaShiell ?????: > > The audio tutorial on that page is way out of date and only gets anyone to > > an unbootable system if instructions are followed. At the least it needs > > removal and at best it needs an update. > where exactly you found an audio tutorial? > > I used the latest talkingarch to do an arch install and still have an > > unbootable system. > are you using a TalkingArch from talkingarch.info? > > For one thing, the pacstrap line is defective. > > It needs at minimum to be: > > pacstrap /mnt base base-devel espeakup alsa-utils pulseaudio-alsa dhcpcd > > linux linux-firmware grub vi > You are not quite right. Some packages in your command are not needed. > > > > Even with that line I haven't got a bootable system since I don't get the > > grub beep when trying to boot the system. > > Beyond that, where is alsa.state supposed to be located and where does > > alsa.state get copied for anything to work? > > I had to attach a second speaker set to a usb port to get the system to > > generate an asound.conf file but even copying that into /mnt/etc didn't > > help. > this is correct, if you have only one sound card, then the file will not > be created. it just isn't needed. > > Another question related to this is if you don't have two or more sound > > cards what are the proper commands to get alsa working at all on a new > > system install with espeakup? That was never coveered in the basic > > install tutorial either. > no special commands are needed. it should just work. > > I've been trying to install this distro for the last couple days so I > > could add a second machine to help out with the foldingathome project and > > so far no cigar. > > The braille notes I have came from that tutorial and I need to know what > > to update so those can be rewritten so they'll be correct. For some > > reason Jenux won't even come up talking on the second machine though > > talkingarch does. > > > > > > -- > > --
