Did you hit the space bar several times on boot up to get to the
language selection menu? You should know, ubuntu has been breaking
accessibility for orca with some of its version releases and this also
impacts vinux. I'm thinking either vinux really is needed as a defense
against ubuntu accessibility breaks. That or maybe build a command line
based system on debian with speakup then download and install gnome from
gnome.org so you get the latest version with latest version of orca.
The http://people.debian.org/~Sthibault/ website has isos of debian that
will get speakup working in command line mode on sound card right out of
the box too. Hope this helps.
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Martin McCormick wrote:
Yesterday, I downloaded ubuntu10.04 and it also comes
right up but without sound. On this particular hardware, nothing
has made any sound after 9.10 and I went up to 11.04.
After running the alsa-info test, I can tell that the
sound card is up, but those who are more expert than I am can
probably tell more about the status of all the flags and
registers that alsa-info.sh reports on.
I thought the simple mixer controls all seemed set to
similar values to what they are in ubuntu9.10 so I think the
problem is that the software that feeds data to the sound card,
the actual audio data, is broken.
One of the how-to descriptions for ubuntu10.10 said to
wait for the melody to play after selecting the language about
5 minutes after booting the CD. On this system, there has never
been so much as a click out of the audio port in 10.04, 10.10 or
11.04.
The system seems solid on all the later versions except
for the sound so I think this will be a pleasure to experiment
with if there is a fix for the sound on this hardware.
I do have an output for hwinfo if anybody can use it as
I suspect there are other similar systems out there as this one
is not the least bit exotic.
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