Ok, it appears that something might be wrong in hardware if that is happening. You said that the cd-rom drive got stuck? What happened? If I know more about that I might be able to help you more.
It is impossible to change the information on the Oralux cd unless you burned it on a cd-rw. If not, you can try the following. Unplug the power from the machine, wait a few seconds and re-plug it. If this does not work, and your braille display is not working properly, see if a sighted person can look at a monitor and see what the thing is saying. When we have that information, it might be easy to help you. In the mean time, did you use OSS or ALSA sound libraries to get your speech? If you have been having trouble with your speech, you might need to use the knoppix alsa cheat code to get the system to change libraries for you. This is the one I hope did not happen. It might be possible to have had a power surge hit your machine, damaging some internal components such as the cd-rom drive and sound card. If these have been damaged, there might be a message that the sighted person can give you that will indicate this. If so, you will need to replace them. I will be waiting for the information on what happened to cause the cd-rom drive to stick. How were you using the machine? What might have happened to indicate to you that something was wrong, etc. Hope this helps. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
