RE: Issues with installing Ubuntu 9.04 under VMWare Workstation

[Garry Turkington]

Hi,

When I've had previous Ubuntu versions (8.10, 8.04 and earlier) installed 
under VMware I didn't have any of the particular quirks I've got with 
9.04.

Two additional points though:

1. I discovered that though the drumbeat start-up sound no longer plays 
automatically at the login screen hitting escape does trigger it.

2. From others on this list if you use the live CD or install with Orca 
support then your 9.04 experience seems to be much less painful.  I did a 
VMware smart install on 9.04 however which meant I needed to get sound 
working the hard way.

Cheers,
Garry

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On Sun, 31 May 2009, Chris Meredith wrote:


 Were these oddities particular to 9.04?  As I mentioned, I'm not running
 into these issues with the live CD of Vinux, and the live CD of 9.04 has
 sound but at a very low level (not muted, however).
 -Original Message-
 From: ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com
 [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Garry
 Turkington
 Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:30 PM
 To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
 Subject: RE: Issues with installing Ubuntu 9.04 under VMWare Workstation

 Hi,

 I've had 9.04 desktop successfully installed under VMware Workstation.  2
 things of note:

 1. The prior startup sound of a few drumbeats is gone.
 2. On first boot and subsequent boots the system volume is set to a low
 level and also muted.

 I've managed to get Orca working but no matter what I do the sound is
 always muted and reset on each boot.  I hadn't considered if maybe it was
 a peculiarity of the virtualized sound device but I guess anything is
 possible...

 Garry

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 On Sun, 31 May 2009, Chris Meredith wrote:

 It's been a while or three since I've played with Linux.  I'm at a
 Username: prompt, but more than that's impossible to tell.  I should
 still
 be getting the Ubuntu startup sound, even without Orca, should I not?



 From: Nolan Darilek [mailto:no...@thewordnerd.info]
 Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:49 PM
 To: Chris Meredith
 Cc: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
 Subject: Re: Issues with installing Ubuntu 9.04 under VMWare Workstation



 On 05/31/2009 04:37 PM, Chris Meredith wrote:

 Wow.  I'm getting . actually no audio whatsoever, regardless of what I do,
 with this edition of Ubuntu.  I'm beginning to wonder if I didn't maybe
 download the server edition in error.



 Can you at least tell if GNOME has launched? If so then you've definitely
 got the desktop edition.



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Speech-dispatcher and the -generic modules for Dectalk and Swift voices

[Garry Turkington]

Hi,

After living with an old speakup 2.x install for an age I finally got 
around to building an up-to-date Ubuntu install.  I've
got Orca working with gnome-speech but also want speakup for terminal 
access.

Since I want to use either Dectalk or Cepstral voices I've configured 
speech-dispatcher/speechd-up and can get it to work
fine with espeak.  But when I try to use the dtk-generic module I get no 
speech via spd-say.

At first it appeared to be an Alsa/OSS thing as I think speech-dispatcher 
was locking /dev/dsp and the Dectalk libraries
seem to want to talk to it directly via OSS.  So I switched 
speech-dispatcher to use OSS and the conflict is gone in that
while speech-dispatcher is configured with espeak I can successfully use 
the Dectalk command line say utility.  But when I
try and move to the dtk-generic module I get nothing.

Plainly there's some incantation I'm missing here -- does anyone know it?

I'll move onto Cepstral Swift after hopefully resolving this -- currently 
just loading the Swift module kills
speech-dispatcher...

Thanks,
Garry


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