Ok, you will have to give me some information, as much as possible, about these machines. I will try to help you.
First of all, how much memory does each have? Does that sound card work with any other distribution of Linux? Does it work with any other software speech synthesizer under any other conditions? Now, you will need the assistance of a sighted person to give me the rest of it. What comes on the screen, especially when the thing appears to die before booting all the way up? Now, use the knoppix testcd cheat code as well. This one will test most of the files in the disk image for you. If anything is corrupted in there, you might wish to download again. Where did you get your copy of the iso file you have? If you need or want a fresh one, get it from http://www.oralux.rs.sr/Oralux_0.7_alpha.iso and re-burn the disk. I had to do that because I got a bad download of this version. Are these machines desktops or laptops? It might just make a huge difference asto whether or not you can use some of this software on them. Laptops are notorious for being improperly configured at the manufacturers. They are infamous for having hardware that might not be supported. However, this seems to be less and less of a problem. You just might have something on there that is not supported. I have only seen one computer that failed to come up talking. It was an old laptop that had some kind of hardware damage anyway and even some of the keys missing. I was given the thing and i just wanted to see how well it would work. Even the starter button failed to kick the thing off most of the times when I tried to turn it on with a freshly charged battery. Other than this one, all the other machines I have tried Oralux on have come right up talking as though they were made to do so. Hope this helps. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! Oralux: http://oralux.org _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
