installing SSH Manually

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi There,
So here's an idea, and I don't know if it will work, or the best option,
I downloaded the open SSH Server for my Ubuntu, ARM version, and I copied it 
into the /boot folder so I'll have access to it in the OS.
I'm wondering if it would work to make a bash script to run it, or if I could 
just put a command in rc.local to run the installer when I boot up.
If this might work, being that it is a .DEB file, is there a switch like -Y to 
have it install automatically?
I can access the rc.local that is on the SD card, from my Ubuntu on my computer.

Thanks.

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Re: Installing SSH

[Glenn K0LNY]

The error is actually
connection refused 
when trying to SSH into it.
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Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 6:21 PM
Subject: Installing SSH


Hello,
I'm trying to install Ubuntu-Mate for Raspberry PI on my RPI 4.
It does not come with SSH, and it shows up in the network, but I get an access 
denied with both Teraterm and Putty.
So I plugged in a keyboard, and booted it again and hit enter a few times, 
because I think there is no password or username, and enough enters that maybe 
I can get through the setup crap.
I try ctrl alt T and then I type:
sudo su enter
then I enter
sudo apt install openssh-server -y
and then I do alt F2 and type in terminal and enter
And I repeat the above command, hoping that I'm in a terminal
But I still get access denied wen trying to SSH into it.
Any other ideas for getting SSH into this installation?

Thanks.

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Installing SSH

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hello,
I'm trying to install Ubuntu-Mate for Raspberry PI on my RPI 4.
It does not come with SSH, and it shows up in the network, but I get an access 
denied with both Teraterm and Putty.
So I plugged in a keyboard, and booted it again and hit enter a few times, 
because I think there is no password or username, and enough enters that maybe 
I can get through the setup crap.
I try ctrl alt T and then I type:
sudo su enter
then I enter
sudo apt install openssh-server -y
and then I do alt F2 and type in terminal and enter
And I repeat the above command, hoping that I'm in a terminal
But I still get access denied wen trying to SSH into it.
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dpkg problem using apt

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi All,
I'm running Ubuntu 18 in a VmWare session on this computer, and I tried to 
install a package that I read from it's web page that it will install into 
Ubuntu with apt
sudo apt install gnuradio -y
And I get an error that reads like:
unable to acquire the dpkg front end lockIs another process using it?

I wonder if this version of Ubuntu no longer has it, in it's repository?
It comes from GNUradio.org
It is a bunch of SDR software and drivers.
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Orca Not Working For Some Reason On Skywave Linux

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi All,
I'm hoping some of you might have some ideas for me to try getting Orca going 
on Skywave Linux.
https://skywavelinux.com/
Skywave Linux is an image of Ubuntu with the mate desktop and i3 window 
manager, whatever that is.
Here's what it reads on that page about that:
"Skywave Linux is a 64 bit system, built on a base of 
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
uses the MATE Desktop and i3 Window Manager. It is the additional digital 
signal processing, networking, and signal decoding applications that set Skywave
Linux apart from its original base software."

When I installed onto a thumb drive, I got as far as getting espeak to say 
something, but spd-say hasn't worked.
This is on a VmWare session.
I've done apt update and apt install gnome-orca and apt install 
speech-dispatcher and apt install alsa-base pulseaudio and apt install speakup.
Of course I used sudo  and I did them successively, when I couldn't get 
anything else to work, I would try one, and test for TTS, and then try the 
next, and so on.
The command speaker-test -c 2 
does give me the white sound, so I know that the speakers aren't muted.
Also,
I'm wondering if this distro has removed a repository that might be needed for 
my installs.
When I was doing all this on the thumb drive, I was able to SSH into it from my 
Raspberry PI and I heard it reading out something about some things not in this 
repository.
Would it be a bad idea to add a main repository where all the packages I need 
to get it talking are located?
If there is a chance, what is the repository where I can get either all that 
Orca needs, or regular Ubuntu packages?
Since I'm doing all this without feedback, I am hoping it won't be too long a 
command for the repository.
The VmWare install so far has not opened itself to SSH, so that is why I have 
to do this without speech output.
I've done the sudo add-apt-repository command in the past, so I'm somewhat 
familiar with adding a repository.
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Re: monitor needed with ubuntu

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi Daniel,
The ability to run without a monitor is more a function of the hardware.
I'd would guess that all computers since Windows XP can boot without a 
monitor.
One might be able to set the BIOS to require a monitor, but typically by 
default, all operating systems can boot headless to my knowledge.
Glenn
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Sent: Monday, January 11, 2021 8:18 PM
Subject: monitor needed with ubuntu


For what reason will the modern ubuntu and other distributions not run 
properly without a monitor?
Is there a way to change this?
What is interesting is some distros will run without a monitor.
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Re: Orca not working with ubuntu-mate-20.10 installer on Live CD?

[Glenn K0LNY]

I have found with previous installs, that if you do the quit option when Orca 
isn't working, and then cancel the quit before actually quitting the install, 
Orca starts working again.
HTH.

Glenn
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Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 1:01 PM
Subject: Orca not working with ubuntu-mate-20.10 installer on Live CD?


Hello,

Just tried to install ubuntu-mate-20.10. It seems that the installer is running 
as super user while Orca is not. Unless I’m missing something, The initial 
installer screen is currently completely inaccessible. Is this a known issue? 
If not, what’s the best way to report it?

Thanks,

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Re: streaming web page from the CLI

[Glenn K0LNY]

Storm or anyone,
Is this the correct format for MPV?
I'll put GlennPSWD as my password and 1234 as the username:

mpv --quiet https://1234:Glennspswd@
https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/30172/web

Then I will try to make a script which I have never done before in Linux and 
put it in local.rc.
I've never done any of this, so bear with me please.
Glenn
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To: "Glenn K0LNY" 
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: streaming web page from the CLI

Howdy Glenn,

Mpv may be able to do what you want. Try something like this:

mpv --quiet 'https://username:password@url'

HTH
Storm

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:18:11PM -0500, ) wrote:
>Hi,
>I have a broadcastify/radio reference account that I use to stream local 
>police and fire, since they are all digital now.
>I would like to boot to a CLI and interface the web page and stream this.
>I've been doing this from my main windows computer, but I want to do it 
>with a less powerful computer.
>I would need to enter my username and password to stream it without 
>commercials.
>Is there a CLI utility that would work for this, or would I need to use a 
>text-based browser to log into the page and enter my login information?
>I'm sure I can get the URL that goes to the right page, so maybe the Linux 
>version of a shortcut that includes the browser and link in it?
>I've used Links in Linux I believe, I don't think it was windows CLI, but I 
>had gotten an idea of that and I'm not sure if it is friendly for edit 
>fields.
>Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
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streaming web page from the CLI

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi,
I have a broadcastify/radio reference account that I use to stream local police 
and fire, since they are all digital now.
I would like to boot to a CLI and interface the web page and stream this.
I've been doing this from my main windows computer, but I want to do it with a 
less powerful computer.
I would need to enter my username and password to stream it without commercials.
Is there a CLI utility that would work for this, or would I need to use a 
text-based browser to log into the page and enter my login information?
I'm sure I can get the URL that goes to the right page, so maybe the Linux 
version of a shortcut that includes the browser and link in it?
I've used Links in Linux I believe, I don't think it was windows CLI, but I had 
gotten an idea of that and I'm not sure if it is friendly for edit fields.
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ubuntu-mate log in automatically

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi All,
I just got Ubuntu Mate 18.0.4.5 installed in VmWare.
Usually when installing from a live version, I get the opportunity to set it to 
log in automatically, but with the VmWare install, I only got to set the 
username and password.
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Re: Ubuntu-Mate as Gest OS

[Glenn K0LNY]

Yep, that fixed it!
I had to enter on show disabled devices, and I went into the properties and 
enabled it.
Thanks.

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To: 'Glenn K0LNY' 
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 1:24 PM
Subject: RE: Ubuntu-Mate as Gest OS


Hi Glenn,

Sometimes, the Stereo Mix device is hidden by default. Try right clicking where 
it says 0 items. There might be an option to show hidden devices. If that 
doesn't work, then I'm stumped.

--Al

 

 

From: Glenn K0LNY  
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 2:11 PM
To: Al Puzzuoli 
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate as Gest OS

 

Hi Al,

Darn!

There was nothing listed in the recording list  for me to choose from.

It said zero items.

Thanks though.

Glenn

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To: 'Glenn K0LNY' ; Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com 

Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 8:12 AM

Subject: RE: Ubuntu-Mate as Gest OS

 

Hi,

Not sure if this applies to Windows 7, but on some Windows 10 machines, you 
have to do the following to get audio to work in vMWare..

  1.. Open Control Panel 
  2.. Select Sound 
  3.. In the dialog that appears, switch to the Recording tab. 
  4.. Tab into the list of devices. 
  5.. Arrow through the device list, see if you find a device called Stereo 
Mix. 
  6.. If you have Stereo Mix, right click it and select Enable.
Hope this helps,

--Al

 

 

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To: Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Ubuntu-Mate as Gest OS

 

Hi All,

I'm running windows 7 64, on a computer with 8 GB of RAM.

I installed VmWare 15X and then installed Ubuntu 16.043 into VmWare.

I gave that 3 GB of RAM.

I get no audio, or it is not working at all.

I tried Ubuntu 18.043 as well.

According to the keyboard commands I found for VmWare, after I power on the 
Ubuntu, I do control G to enter commands in the virtual Ubuntu, and control + 
alt allows me to do other tasks in the native Windows.

These Ubuntu images work on this computer on a live boot of Ubuntu-mate, same 
images.

Could it be this version of VmWare?

Is there something that would work better than VmWare?

Thanks for any assistance.

 

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Ubuntu-Mate as Gest OS

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi All,
I'm running windows 7 64, on a computer with 8 GB of RAM.
I installed VmWare 15X and then installed Ubuntu 16.043 into VmWare.
I gave that 3 GB of RAM.
I get no audio, or it is not working at all.
I tried Ubuntu 18.043 as well.
According to the keyboard commands I found for VmWare, after I power on the 
Ubuntu, I do control G to enter commands in the virtual Ubuntu, and control + 
alt allows me to do other tasks in the native Windows.
These Ubuntu images work on this computer on a live boot of Ubuntu-mate, same 
images.
Could it be this version of VmWare?
Is there something that would work better than VmWare?
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Re: How to switch Libao to Alsa?

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Hi Vojta,
How did you get Orca talking on the rPI 4?
I have a rPI 4 with 4 GB of RAM, and I followed the steps that Paval sent 
out, but could not get it talking.
Thanks for any insights.
And Here's something on the reverse of what you want, so these steps may 
help, I saved this message from Mike R. on the RaspberryVI list:
HTH.
Glenn

Be careful of removing pulse,because it breaks stuff like media players.

The problem lies in the use of pulse as a user other than the logged in
user.

This is why logging in to the GUI makes the console go silent.

eSpeak checks to see if pulse is running, and if it is, tries to use it.
And fails in the console.

You can fix this by changing to libao in
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf.

Don't try to use alsa in that config file, because there is a bug in the
sd_espeak module which makes it crash and silently unload if SD is using
alsa. It is some kind of thread conflict I think.

You can get round this also by using my OMX library and my forked
version of espeakup to render speech directly on the Pi GPU.

This gives a very punchy eSpeak in the console.





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Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 8:57 AM
Subject: How to switch Libao to Alsa?


Hello,

how to switch Libao to Alsa in Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi 4B 4 GB RAM? I
have Ubuntu Mate 20.04 32 bit for Arm. Espeak on Libao speaks scarry.

Thanks.

Best regards

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Re: Ubuntu Mate on Raspberry Pi

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Yeah, I was hoping Paval's steps would work for me too, but they didn't.
Those are the right type of steps we need, but perhaps a bit more precise.
Glenn
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To: 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Mate on Raspberry Pi


Hello Pavel,

We've tested it with Libor. But we made mistake, we set Orca on but it
makes strange noises. And we made by your tutorial, but system not
restart after pressing enter many times after user options. But good
news, we had login sound. Please, how can we do now?

Thanks.

Best regards

Vojta.

P. S. How can we switch pulse to libao?

Pavel Vlček napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> yes it is possible, but you need to do 2 steps.
>
> Edit the config.txt in the boot partition and add:
>
> dtparam=audio=on
> hdmi_force_hotplug=1
> hdmi_drive=2
> dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
> After that, you can boot, but you will need an assistance to set up
> your account, or:
>
> press enter 3 or 4 times.
>
> Enter your full name,
>
> tab twice and enter your user name
>
> tab enter password
>
> tab enter it again
>
> press enter
>
> after 10 secs press it again
>
> and again
>
> and again until Raspberry restarts.
>
> After restart, you can login as usual by entering your password, the
> system will use English language and English keyboard.
>
> Pavel
>
>
> Dne 09.08.2020 v 12:47 Vojtěch šmiro napsal(a):
>> Hello,
>>
>> has someone experiences with installation of Ubuntu Mate to Raspberry
>> Pi? I have Raspberry Pi 4B 4 GB of rAM and no monitor.
>>
>> Is some way to install Ubuntu Mate to Raspberry Pi without plugged
>> monitor? Don't worry, I have braille display, so I can work blindly.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Vojta.
>>
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Re: ubuntu-mate-18.04.4-desktop-i386 silence or no boot

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I guess if I knew I was going to have problems with it, I wouldn't have tipped 
Ubuntu-Mate 10 dollars today.
Glenn
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To: Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2020 2:42 PM
Subject: ubuntu-mate-18.04.4-desktop-i386 silence or no boot


Hi,
I've downloaded this twice and I'm having booting to it on a 4GB USB drive.
I have no problems using Ubuntu-Mate 16.043 on my computers, but with 
ubuntu-mate-18.04.4-desktop-i386 I get no audio, and don't hear the speakers 
pop when booting to it.
I'm using an Intel NUC with 8GB of RAM.
I believe it uses a realtech sound chip on the motherboard.
Does anyone know if there are issues with some hardware on this version?
I want the i386 version so I can use it on some older computers around the 
house as well.
Thanks for any info.
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ubuntu-mate-18.04.4-desktop-i386 silence or no boot

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Hi,
I've downloaded this twice and I'm having booting to it on a 4GB USB drive.
I have no problems using Ubuntu-Mate 16.043 on my computers, but with 
ubuntu-mate-18.04.4-desktop-i386 I get no audio, and don't hear the speakers 
pop when booting to it.
I'm using an Intel NUC with 8GB of RAM.
I believe it uses a realtech sound chip on the motherboard.
Does anyone know if there are issues with some hardware on this version?
I want the i386 version so I can use it on some older computers around the 
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Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?

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Here's the page with instructions:
https://techesoterica.com/getting-the-orca-screen-reader-working-with-a-raspberry-pi/
Glenn
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From: "Glenn K0LNY" 
To: "Glenn K0LNY" ; 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Try this page which has a Raspbian download with instructions for the
visually impaired:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


oops, as I'm looking at it, it reads beta1 also.
Glenn
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To: ; "Vojtěch šmiro"

Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Try this link:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
Raspberry PI is down the page, past the regular ones.
I'm now downloading the version 18 that is not a beta, and perhaps it boots
normally.
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Hello,

I want to use Ubuntu Mate on my Raspberry Pi 4B 2 GB. I need some link
too, i am adding to you, Glenn. Links are wellcomed. Please, have you
anybody on the list some link?

Best regards

Vojta.

Glenn K0LNY napsal(a):
> Hi,
> I downloaded a Ubuntu-Mate image, Ubuntu-Mate Buster for the RPI, and
> I cannot get Orca talking.
> ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img
> It is a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM.
> If this is not the right image, could anyone give me a link to
> Ubuntu-Mate with Orca?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
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Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?

[Glenn K0LNY]

Try this page which has a Raspbian download with instructions for the 
visually impaired:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


oops, as I'm looking at it, it reads beta1 also.
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:24 AM
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Try this link:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
Raspberry PI is down the page, past the regular ones.
I'm now downloading the version 18 that is not a beta, and perhaps it boots
normally.
Glenn
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To: 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Hello,

I want to use Ubuntu Mate on my Raspberry Pi 4B 2 GB. I need some link
too, i am adding to you, Glenn. Links are wellcomed. Please, have you
anybody on the list some link?

Best regards

Vojta.

Glenn K0LNY napsal(a):
> Hi,
> I downloaded a Ubuntu-Mate image, Ubuntu-Mate Buster for the RPI, and
> I cannot get Orca talking.
> ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img
> It is a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM.
> If this is not the right image, could anyone give me a link to
> Ubuntu-Mate with Orca?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
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Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?

[Glenn K0LNY]

I just joined the Ubuntu-Mate forum and posted a complaint at:
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/accessibility-for-the-raspberry-pi/22371
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:27 AM
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oops, as I'm looking at it, it reads beta1 also.
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Try this link:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
Raspberry PI is down the page, past the regular ones.
I'm now downloading the version 18 that is not a beta, and perhaps it boots
normally.
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Hello,

I want to use Ubuntu Mate on my Raspberry Pi 4B 2 GB. I need some link
too, i am adding to you, Glenn. Links are wellcomed. Please, have you
anybody on the list some link?

Best regards

Vojta.

Glenn K0LNY napsal(a):
> Hi,
> I downloaded a Ubuntu-Mate image, Ubuntu-Mate Buster for the RPI, and
> I cannot get Orca talking.
> ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img
> It is a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM.
> If this is not the right image, could anyone give me a link to
> Ubuntu-Mate with Orca?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
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Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?

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oops, as I'm looking at it, it reads beta1 also.
Glenn
- Original Message - 
From: "Glenn K0LNY" 
To: ; "Vojtěch šmiro" 

Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Try this link:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
Raspberry PI is down the page, past the regular ones.
I'm now downloading the version 18 that is not a beta, and perhaps it boots
normally.
Glenn
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Hello,

I want to use Ubuntu Mate on my Raspberry Pi 4B 2 GB. I need some link
too, i am adding to you, Glenn. Links are wellcomed. Please, have you
anybody on the list some link?

Best regards

Vojta.

Glenn K0LNY napsal(a):
> Hi,
> I downloaded a Ubuntu-Mate image, Ubuntu-Mate Buster for the RPI, and
> I cannot get Orca talking.
> ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img
> It is a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM.
> If this is not the right image, could anyone give me a link to
> Ubuntu-Mate with Orca?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
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Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?

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Try this link:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
Raspberry PI is down the page, past the regular ones.
I'm now downloading the version 18 that is not a beta, and perhaps it boots 
normally.
Glenn
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To: 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Hello,

I want to use Ubuntu Mate on my Raspberry Pi 4B 2 GB. I need some link
too, i am adding to you, Glenn. Links are wellcomed. Please, have you
anybody on the list some link?

Best regards

Vojta.

Glenn K0LNY napsal(a):
> Hi,
> I downloaded a Ubuntu-Mate image, Ubuntu-Mate Buster for the RPI, and
> I cannot get Orca talking.
> ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img
> It is a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM.
> If this is not the right image, could anyone give me a link to
> Ubuntu-Mate with Orca?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
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Re: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?

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In reading this from this page:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/ports/raspberry-pi/

I don't know how we would get Orca working if it requires the setup process to 
run first as described below:

First boot

NOTE! There are no predefined user accounts. The first time you boot the Ubuntu 
MATE image it will run through a setup wizard where you can create your
own user account and configure your regional settings. The first boot setup 
takes a few minutes to complete, but subsequent boots are much quicker.

Firmware

The GPU firmware partition is mounted at /boot/firmware. The files 
/boot/firmware/config.txt and /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt contain the system 
configuration
and kernel command line options respectively.

SSH

The OpenSSH server is not installed by default. Simply install it to to enable 
SSH.

sudo apt install openssh-server

If you install SSH then you might also want to install sshguard which is highly 
optimised and well suited for use on the Raspberry Pi to protect from brute
force attacks against SSH.

- Original Message - 
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To: Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:41 PM
Subject: Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?


Hi,
I downloaded a Ubuntu-Mate image, Ubuntu-Mate Buster for the RPI, and I cannot 
get Orca talking.
ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img
It is a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM.
If this is not the right image, could anyone give me a link to Ubuntu-Mate with 
Orca?
Thanks.
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Ubuntu-Mate With Orca for the Raspberry PI 4?

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Hi,
I downloaded a Ubuntu-Mate image, Ubuntu-Mate Buster for the RPI, and I cannot 
get Orca talking.
ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img
It is a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM.
If this is not the right image, could anyone give me a link to Ubuntu-Mate with 
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Packet Software

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi,
For all the many years I have been in Ham radio, I have always wanted to try 
Packet Radio.
I just bought a TNC, which is fairly new.
My community has a digipeater available too.
So I'm wondering if there is packet software that works with Orca that is 
recommended.
Thanks.
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Re: sound with h d m i

[Glenn K0LNY]

I use Ubuntu without a monitor, maybe you installed it with a monitor to 
begin with and now it expects it.
Glenn
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Subject: sound with h d m i


I am using ubuntu 20.4 with a usb sound card and headphones.
I would like to start using my television with its h d m i connection for 
sound.
I must keep my tower connected to the television because otherwise ubuntu 
will not work without a monitor.
But when going in to sound settings, and switching to h d m i, then I hear 
nothing.
Right away I use up arrow so I may get back to u s b.
Since I am a total, I would be in bad shape if I would not hear orca.
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Latest Ubuntu For a CD

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi,
I want to install Ubuntu on a computer with 512 mb of RAM, and it only has a CD 
drive.
I think Ubuntu 16 is probably the latest version that will run on that amount 
of RAM.
But the ISO will only fit on a DVD, and this drive only has a CD drive, and the 
BIOS or boot options don't recognize a USB for boot options.
I know that there are minimal boot downloads, but are there any that come with 
Orca?
Thanks.
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Re: maybe off topic but how do I setup orca on a flash drive

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Hi Don,
I use Universal USB Installer.
It offers to make a persistence file.
I have read that one should always make a persistence file within 512 MB 
ranges, like 512, 1024, 2048, etc.
Here's a link:
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
Glenn

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Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2020 3:23 PM
Subject: maybe off topic but how do I setup orca on a flash drive


Hello,

 

It has been a number of years since I have used Ubuntu and then it was always 
on an installed version.

I was using a desktop system that had a dvd drive so I could install  from the 
burned dvd.

 

Now none of my systems have dvd or cd drives, so I need to get a working copy 
of Ubuntu on a flash drive that I can run on my dell or linovo systems to 
perform system maintenance.

 

Are there any "good docs on how to setup Ubuntu on a flash drive with 
persistence?






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Re: Ubuntu 20.04

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Hi,
If you want Orca during an install, you should not select install from the 
boot options.
I'm guessing that is what happened when you pressed F12.
Most computers any more, especially one that can run Ubuntu 2020, would not 
need F12 to select the boot device.
It is older computers that didn't automatically do that, because in those 
days, there weren't a lot of reasons to boot to another device.
So the correct choice would be to just put in the disk, boot, and let it go 
for a few seconds, and when it beeps, just press enter.
It will then boot into Ubuntu, and you can press super + S for Orca.
HTH.
Glenn
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Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 7:56 AM
Subject: Ubuntu 20.04


Hello everyone.  I am using Ubuntu 2020 with a Dell.
When installing Ubuntu mate 2020.04 yesterday, I pressed f 12 to get to the 
boot menu.
Then went to what I thought was the dvd choice.
Since I could not bring up Orca for several attempts, I used Be My Eyes.
The volunteer said that after I pressed f 12, a language choice prompt 
appeared.
Then the choice whether to use Ubuntu before installing, or to install 
appeared.
After entering on use before installing I then brought up Orca with super 
alt s.
Should I have been able to bring up Orca before those other choices?
Is this installer markedly different than with Ubuntu 2018.04?
Had I not had Be My Eyes, how would I have known what to do in this 
situation?
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bad sources.list file

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Hi,
I keep getting an error that line 55 in my sources.list file is bad.
I can't update anything or get updates.
Ubuntu 11.10
I wonder if someone here who knows more about this can contact me off-list and 
look for a problem in my sources.list file.
And if I can use someone else's, please send me a copy.
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Found out why I can't install anything past Ubuntu 11 on this netbook

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Hi All,
I've seen the PAE error message on the Ubuntu server and Arch installs when 
someone read the screen for me, and I just watched a Youtube that describes how 
to get around the error.
It seems that almost all Intel processors after 2000 were made with PAE 
(physical Address Extension).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94q9teA0Mn8
shows the installation work-around.
But I'm not sure what will come after I follow those steps, if I will be at a 
prompt, or if I will be in an install screen.
Here's another post with some work-arounds:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/117744/how-can-i-install-on-a-non-pae-cpu-error-kernel-requires-features-not-present
I may try the route of Xubuntu 12.10 and upgrade from there if I can find that 
image.

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Ubuntu Mate

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Hi,
I downloaded Ubuntu 16.10 from Ubuntu.com and it booted to Unity.
The problem with that is that I cannot get to any of the system Internet and 
Networks to connect to my WIFI.
I thought that Mate came starting with 16.
Unity is awful.
If I cannot find 16.10 Mate, how am I supposed to connect to WIFI?
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Can't Seem To Get Orca Going

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Hi All,
Has anyone ever been able to get Orca going on a Ubuntu based distro where Orca 
does not work out of the box?
One I really want to get going is called Skywave Linux.
https://skywavelinux.com/
A description from their page is below.
I have tried rewriting the ISO several times, in case I broke something with my 
attempts in getting Orca going.
I think I have successfully disabled pulseaudio, but I don't know if I have 
gotten alsamixer going to replace it.
At one time I got Orca and espeakup going, but when I rebooted, it's like 
pulseaudio reappeared and killed them from talking.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Here's the description of this distro:
Glenn

Note: Skywave Linux is an operating system using bleeding-edge technology to 
robustly access broadcast, utility, military, and amateur radio signals from
almost anywhere in the world, including countries with restrictive internet 
environments. Skywave Linux connects to a large and growing network of 
state-of-the
art software defined radio (SDR) servers, making it possible to experience high 
performance SDR operation without your own large antennas or on-site radio
hardware. All you need to do is boot the system on a computer with internet 
connectivity. Skywave Linux can also operate numerous types of SDR hardware,
plugged in or on the local network. Downloading, installing and configuring SDR 
software can be difficult for many computer users; Skywave Linux eliminates
the hassle by including several applications installed, configured, and ready 
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installing espeakup

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi,
I keep trying different distros on this netbook, an Asus 701 with little 
success.
I did get Ubuntu 11.04 working with Orca.
I want to try something newer, so I downloaded Ubuntu Server 14.10, and it will 
come without the GUI.
So if I can get it talking with eSpeakup, I will try to install Mate or Gnome.
But what are the proper steps to get espeakup going in the CLI after it boots 
up?
I have had no luck with Talking Arch or Vinux 4.1.
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Ubuntu Mate 14.10

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi All,
Because it is no longer supported, I cannot get this from the Ubuntu site, as 
far as I can tell.
So does anyone have this where I can download it?
I would like to start with that on my older Asus 701 netbook.
I had a Ubuntu Gnome 11.04 ISO that I installed, but that is all I have around 
here, and I tried 16.10 but it stalls on starting.
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Skywave Ubuntu can't get Orca Going

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Hi All,
Hoping you can help me get this talking.
I downloaded a version of Ubuntu Mate with SDR software preinstalled, along 
with Internet radio stuff.
It looks like it should work well for the Nooelec SDR dongle I just got.
It's called Skywave Linux.
Anyway, I have not been able to get Orca or Speakup working on this reliably.
In the terminal I can get the audio test white noise, which I have had to do 
constantly to be sure I have a ready prompt.
I have tried installing everything I can think of without speech, in the 
terminal, like pulseaudio, speech-dispatcher, espeakup , and I even purged and 
reinstalled alsa-base pulseaudio.
At one point, I had espeakup talking, and then I installed gnome-orca and that 
sort of talked but when I tried to shut down, it would not shut down normally, 
like it froze, I couldn't tell without speech, so I had to do a hard shutdown 
and when I called it back up, it was like it was originally, I can do the 
speaker-test, but nothing else.
This is on the live image I burned to USB with a persistence file.
It's Ubuntu Mate 16.10 64 bit version.
Here's the site:
https://skywavelinux.com/
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Fw: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04

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Hi Jude,
The dhcpcd only told me that that is not installed.
And There is nothing in interfaces about eth0.
I do have the ifup, but that does nothing.
But I did the dhclient command you suggested, and now it is finally showing 
an IP address that reflects my router's IP range.
So that is progress, but now it cannot get out to the WAN, as updates still 
won't connect and FF still gets an error trying to load a page.

But I can ping 192.168.1.1, which is my router.
It did not understand nmtui though.
And it did not know iplink for iplink set eth0 up
But there's some progress.
Glenn
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To: "Glenn K0LNY" 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04



Hi Glenn,

In /etc/network-interfaces/network-interfaces.d are sample files for
different type network installs.  One of them will have wlan0 in it
and have that connected to eth0.  That one may help if you copy it to
/etc/network-interfaces but first check the content of
/etc/network-interfaces if it exists to make sure you don't overwrite
anything valuable.  The contents of /etc/resolv.conf may prove
informative too.

Have you tried
dhcpcd
also
dhclient
yet?
Before you do those dhcpcd and dhclient commands try iproute -a and
then see where you find yourself.
If this is a new laptop Ubuntu 10.4 likely won't know all about its
hardware.
You may need to install debian firmware edition.

If you'd like it let me know and I'll see if I can send you a script
to download the iso.

Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Glenn K0LNY wrote:


Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:41:22
From: Glenn K0LNY 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Subject: Re: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04

Hi Jude,
Yes, although I hadn't mentioned that, I did try ifup eth0 and it says
ignoring unknown interface eth0

Glenn
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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04


> eth0 is your wired connection.  So it's a matter of waking eth0 up. 
> Have

> you got a pair of commands ifup and ifdown on that box?
> If yes, have you tried ifup eth0?
> If you do that, next try a few pings if that returns no errors.
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Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04

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Hi All again,
I also tried putting a couple lines in /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.4.4
nameserver 8.8.8.8

This did nothing, and I also tried to ping 8.8.4.4 and also 8.8.8.8
and it was unable to connect.
I looked on my router and listed the devices connected, and this computer is 
not showing up.
I have it wired into the router.
Does anyone know of a network repair that can be done in Ubuntu?
I looked in system administration and network tools and it shows loop or 
something like that and eth0.
There seems to be nothing available, the applications key on them do nothing 
and entering on them do nothing.
ifconfig did not show any IP address.
Thanks for any assistance.

Glenn
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Subject: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04


Hi,
I'm going to see if I can just upgrade this Ubuntu 10.04 on the Asus netbook.
I cannot seem to get WIFI on it, so I plugged it directly into my router via 
Ethernet cable, and it still does not access any web pages using FF.
I checked to ensure the "work off line" was not checked.
So I'm wondering, when Ubuntu gets out of date, does it disable its Internet 
connectivity?
Or does anyone have any ideas?

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loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04

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I'm going to see if I can just upgrade this Ubuntu 10.04 on the Asus netbook.
I cannot seem to get WIFI on it, so I plugged it directly into my router via 
Ethernet cable, and it still does not access any web pages using FF.
I checked to ensure the "work off line" was not checked.
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Asus 901

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hi,
I have an old Asus 901 netbook, currently running Ubuntu 10.04.
It seems to have issues connecting to WIFI.
At any rate, I thought I'd update it to 16.04 or newer, but when I try booting 
to live images of 16 or 18, it looks like it booted, but there is no audio, 
that is, I cannot bring up Orca.
It has 2 GB of RAM.
Has anyone gotten later Ubuntu images to have audio on one of these little 
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difference in WI-FI between Ubuntu and windows

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Hi All,
Maybe someone might shed some light on the difference and possible reasons for 
this situation.
I have an Intel NUC 5PPYH, which has 8GB of RAM.
I'm running windows 7 professional, and I also use Ubuntu 18.04 on it.
It uses an Intel WIFI chip inside and recently in Windows, I have been dealing 
with buffering problems with iHeart radio, whether it's on my Amazon Echo or 
with the computer.
The Echo is only about a foot away from the computer, not sure if I can change 
that.
But when I boot to Ubuntu, the Echo works great without any of the buffering, 
and I get a good WIFI connection in Ubuntu, although I just haven't tried 
streaming iHeart with Ubuntu.
And when I put Windows to sleep, the Echo does not buffer.
So I think that it is either them being so close, or there's another reason why 
Windows isn't getting along with the Echo, and when Ubuntu works fine.
They are on two different bands on my router, the Echo is on the 2ghz 
connection and the Intel NUC is on the 5 ghz, both in Ubuntu and windows.
But I don't know why if it is the proximity, why there is no problem in Ubuntu.
I did not install any drivers specifically for the WIFI, for Ubuntu, I let the 
Ubuntu use what it usually chooses, and the Windows I installed it from Intel's 
automatic driver install, which finds the right driver for your Intel product.
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No Audio On Pine64 and Media Server

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Hi,
I downloaded the image:
xubuntu-xenial-mate-20170306-longsleep-sopine-8GB.img
and put it on a micro SD card and booted up, and I get no audio.
I can SSH into it when it is plugged into the router.
It has a headphone jack that I plugged a small powered speaker into, which 
usually works for this, and I also plugged in an HDMI to VGA adapter which has 
an audio jack on it, and sound comes out of neither place.
I have tried using:
espeak "hello"
and
speaker-test -c 2
and the speaker test runs fine, but sound comes out of neither place, and when 
running eSpeak it gives some error about jack server cannot be located.
I looked in /etc and there is no .conf file for alsa.
But I ran apt install alsa-mixer and it told me that the one installed is the 
latest package.

So since I don't really care if I can use it as such, I just want to be able to 
transmit audio through my router for listening with other devices on my home 
network.
Which is easier in the CLI to set up for this?
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reinstalling a boot loader

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I had a dual-boot system, well, a tri-boot system actually, I had one partition 
with Universal USB Installer, and WinPE on it, and one partition with Ubuntu on 
it and Windows 7 on the other.
I installed Ubuntu last and had GRUB working.
I was using an MBR scheme.
My windows 7 got some malware that affected my partition table and I had to 
rewrite the MBR.
But my partitions have been reclaimed, but I can no longer boot to Ubuntu.
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xubuntu on Pine64 no audio

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It looks like this distro does not support the audio device built into the 
board.
I did arecord -l
and it listed no devices
I also did lspci | grep
and it listed no audio devices.
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xxubuntu 16.04 audio help

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Hi,
The only Ubuntu for the Pine64 is xubuntu  Zenial Mate.
I failed to mention that it is xubuntu in my previous messages.
I would rather get this working without a USB soundcard, it has an audio jack.
When I SSH into it and log in as root, and run 
espeak "hello"
it does not send any output and refers to the jack server.
I tried:
apt-get install gnome-orca
and it read a lot a lot of messages that Alsa could not find devices, and read 
that the version of Orca that is installed is already the latest.
That part is good news, so I know that it should work, but I need to get the 
audio working.
Perhaps I can tweak an audio file.
Would anyone be able to point me to the directory for editing and which file to 
edit?
I'm thinking that modprobe is in order, but I'm not sure.
Linux is not my main platform.
Incidentally, when I logged in with sudo -s
it did not let me run espeak, but when I logged in with sudo su, it did.
And it does not recognize aptitude.
Glenn



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Xenial Mate [20170306] built by PINE64

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Hi,
I found out that the 2016.04 Xenial for Pine64 does not support my particular 
board, I have the Pine A64-lts board.
But this does support my board:
Xenial Mate [20170306] built by PINE64
So my question, is, does Xenial Mate on the desktop version come with Orca?
I know that this not guarantee that the ARM version will have it, but if it 
does not support Orca, then it probably does not on the ARM version.
Thanks for any info.

Glenn


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Xenial Mate

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Hi,
I have a Pine64, like a Raspberry PI, an ARM device.
In looking at the Linux options, one Ubuntu flavor is Xenial Mate.
Initially I will SSH into it, but I'm wondering if anyone knows whether Xenial 
Mate GUI usually comes with Orca?
Or SpeakUp for that matter.
Thanks.

Glenn


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Grub Beeps

[Glenn At Home]

Hi,
Somewhere, I cannot find the message, I read something on a list I'm on, maybe 
this one, that grub can beep each time you arrow to an OS.
Is this right, and how is it achieved?
Thanks.
Glenn

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Yumi or Universal USB Installer on Linux

[Glenn At Home]

Hi,
I have used these programs for years in Windows to put Linux onto a USB drive 
of various sorts.
I am wondering if the main repository has either of these utilities, or if 
anyone knows of something else that works as well.
I like Yumi because it allows multiple operating systems to be installed.
Thanks.

Glenn

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Re: making bootable version of one's own system

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Hi,
I have done this with a program called 
remastersys
But I think the program became outdated, and someone picked it up, but it 
sounded more complicated to set up, so I haven't done it again.
But remastersys was pretty easy in the CLI.
If you search for remastersys, I'm sure you will find the replacement program, 
and do let me know how you get along with it, because I would like to do it 
again.
Glenn

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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:24:12 -0500
From: Daniel Crone 
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
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Has anyone ever had one's system set up a certain way, and made that system in 
to a bootable i s o, so that one could install, and not have to configure all 
over again?


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upgrading with accessibility

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Hi All,
I have a copy of Ubuntu XpLike 10.04, which worked well back then, and Orca 
worked well on it, and I have it in ISO image which I have installed with 
Universal USB Installer before.
I would like to try putting it onto a system, and bring it up to Ubuntu 
something like 16.04.03.
I know that it has to be upgraded one number at a time.
I am wondering if all should work as well as if I went straight to 16, to begin 
with, or if things will break along the way.
I really liked the way this had XP themes.
Maybe it will lose all the themes and then I would be better off going with 16 
right away anyway.
What are some thoughts?
Thanks.

Glenn

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No Orca on Ubuntu 17.10

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Hi,
I sent out a message to the list earlier from the office, but it never showed 
up, so maybe I got the address incorrect.
Anyway, I have a laptop running windows 7 with 2GB of RAM
I installed the Ubuntu 17.10 32 bit (i386) onto a thumb drive with Universal 
USB Installer.
This I have done many times with older versions of Ubuntu.
It boots up, and I get the thunk when I backspace in either the terminal 
window, or the run field, so I know that there is audio.
Neither super + alt + S nor control + S will start orca.
I tried running orca in the alt + F2 run window, and it did not work.
The speaker-test worked in a terminal.
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Re: VmWare problem

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Hi Nick,
I did the control + G, and I also did the alt + control and it goes back to 
Windows control.
After control G, all keystrokes are silent, as they should be before speech.
I don't know about full screen mode.
One would think too, if the alt + F2 works, or any edit field, I should hear 
the thunk on backspace, but I don't hear that either.

Glenn

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Subject: Re: VmWare problem
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Hi Glenn,

Are you sure that Ubuntu has the keyboard focus?  If not, your 
keystrokes will not go through to the guest operating system.

I use VMWare on linux, and by default VMWare does not grab keyboard 
focus unless you either put the VM into full screen or press Ctrl+G (or 
click with the mouse somewhere inside the guest operating system's window)

So when you hear the bongos, try Ctrl+G, and then try the Orca key 
combination which is Alt+Super+S.   Orca should start speaking.

Regards,

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VmWare problem

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Hi,
Today I installed VmWare on a Windows 7 machine with 8GB of RAM.
I created a machine that boots Ubuntu 16.4.3 from the ISO.
It did not take long, and I heard the bongo sound, like as in the log-in window.
The VmWare required me to create a user name and password.
I made up something that satisfied the required fields and continued to the 
hear the aforementioned bongo sound.
So I tried putting in my newly created user name and password, and I could not 
seemingly boot to the desktop.
I tried control + S, and I tried alt + F2 and entering orca, and still 
seemingly nothing.
I gave the machine 4GB RAM of the 8GB.
Maybe I did not wait long enough for it to install?
When that did not work, I deleted that one, and created another, this time 
giving it the user name and password both of "ubuntu".
Still, nothing.
Given that the bongo sound happened, isn't it just about installed at that 
point?
Thanks for any assistance.
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Re: Ubuntu mate 17.10 mate addition and unable to read the menus.

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Alex,
I don't have 17 now, I just wiped the drive and put 16 on it.
I was searching the web for solutions like what you wrote, but all I found 
involved editing some conf files and some long commands, and if I had 
someone reading them to me, I'd be glad to try them, but sometimes I hate 
remembering while I go back and forth from one computer to the other to 
enter long strings.
Glenn

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From: "Alex ARNAUD" 
To: "Glenn At Home" ; "Ubuntu List" 

Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2018 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu mate 17.10 mate addition and unable to read the menus.


Le 11/03/2018 à 18:06, Glenn At Home a écrit :
> I had this trouble with the same version on a live copy running from a
> thumb drive and on a laptop I had installed it to.
> I just went back to 16.4.3.
> But I'm glad to see that someone else had that, and it wasn't a corrupt
> download or something on my end.
> Not that I'm glad you had the difficulty too though.

Could you restart the menu with "mate-panel --replace" from the run
dialog (alt+f2) and tell me if it solves the issue for you ? If yes, I
suspect the new greeter from Lightdm to be the culprit. Could you try to
remove slick-greeter and install lightdm-gtk-greeter ?
Be aware of potential issues when switching of greeter, I just advise
you stuff I don't use myself because I'm on Debian and Debian uses
lightdm-gtk-greeter by default.

Best regards,
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RE: Ubuntu mate 17.10 mate addition and unable to read the menus.

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I had this trouble with the same version on a live copy running from a thumb 
drive and on a laptop I had installed it to.
I just went back to 16.4.3.
But I'm glad to see that someone else had that, and it wasn't a corrupt 
download or something on my end.
Not that I'm glad you had the difficulty too though.

Glenn
Subject: Ubuntu mate 17.10 mate addition and unable to read the menus.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Evening all.


Running ubuntu mate 17.10 orca 3.26, and mate 1.18. The mate menus are 
silent. Pressing ault f1 gives no speach. If I launch ing the terminal 
is fine. I tried the following command with no resault. gsettings set 
org.mate.interface accessibility true. This was after I did a clean 
install and updated all packages. If anyone else has any ideas on how 
to fix this please let me know. I filed a bug on this one but wanted to 
see if anyone else has had this problem. I am running in a vm if this 
matters.


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Oracle VirtualBox

[Glenn At Home]

A correction:
Actually, it is the right control key that brings up a key pass-through option.
Glenn
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:45:03 -0600
From: "Glenn At Home" 
To: "Ubuntu List" 
Subject: Oracle VirtualBox
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi Nick,
Control + G did not seem to do anything, but The left control key alone gives 
the opportunity to pass through a keystroke.
I think that is for doing something on the host computer.
Thanks though.
Glenn

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Hi Glenn,

Its a long shot I know, but have you made sure that VirtualBox has the 
keyboard focus before pressing the Orca shortcut keys?

I'm not familiar with VirtualBox, but with VMWare you have to press 
Ctrl+G so that VMWare grabs the keyboard input and sends it to the guest 
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Oracle VirtualBox

[Glenn At Home]

Hi Nick,
Control + G did not seem to do anything, but The left control key alone gives 
the opportunity to pass through a keystroke.
I think that is for doing something on the host computer.
Thanks though.
Glenn

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Hi Glenn,

Its a long shot I know, but have you made sure that VirtualBox has the 
keyboard focus before pressing the Orca shortcut keys?

I'm not familiar with VirtualBox, but with VMWare you have to press 
Ctrl+G so that VMWare grabs the keyboard input and sends it to the guest 
operating system.

Regards,

Nick


On 07/03/18 01:03, Glenn At Home wrote:
> Hi,
> Today I downloaded Oracle Virtual Box and installed it on Windows 7.
> It is on a 64 bit machine with adequate RAM.
> I loaded Ubuntu 16.4.3-i386 version.
> It said it was running.
> I could not load up Orca.
> Using the left control and S, the alt + windows + S nor alt + F2 and 
> running orca worked.
> I was using an ISO that I have installed onto USB and DVD before, so the 
> ISO is good.
> Any pointers?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
> 
> 



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Re: Oricle Virtual Box

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It wasn't easy, I copied the file name and pasted it in the field and when it 
could not find it, the browse window was accessible, and I browsed to the 
location.
But after that, the only feedback I got was that the machine was running.
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2018 1:53 AM
Subject: SV: Oricle Virtual Box


Glenn i asume you are blind?

How do you use the virtualbox gui?

 

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Hi,

Today I downloaded Oracle Virtual Box and installed it on Windows 7.

It is on a 64 bit machine with adequate RAM.

I loaded Ubuntu 16.4.3-i386 version.

It said it was running.

I could not load up Orca.

Using the left control and S, the alt + windows + S nor alt + F2 and running 
orca worked.

I was using an ISO that I have installed onto USB and DVD before, so the ISO is 
good.

Any pointers?

Thanks.

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Oricle Virtual Box

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Hi,
Today I downloaded Oracle Virtual Box and installed it on Windows 7.
It is on a 64 bit machine with adequate RAM.
I loaded Ubuntu 16.4.3-i386 version.
It said it was running.
I could not load up Orca.
Using the left control and S, the alt + windows + S nor alt + F2 and running 
orca worked.
I was using an ISO that I have installed onto USB and DVD before, so the ISO is 
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Fw: looking for screen readers for a study

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its partners (including American
Council of the Blind, Association for the BVI, Blind Service Association,
ALA-Office for Information Technology Policy, Learning Ally, National
Federation of the Blind-WI Chapter, and Vision Forward, Milwaukee Public
Libraries, Milwaukee Public Museum, and Milwaukee Art Museum) are
collaborating to develop digital library design guidelines on accessibility,
usability, and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The
project will benefit the approximately 20.6 million Americans with
significant vision loss who cannot use digital libraries effectively because
of the libraries' sight-centered design. The goal: to make digital libraries
more universally accessible.

The researchers are looking to identify a few more screen reader users who
are available to participate in the "diary" phase of the study for February
2018.  Those interested in participating will complete a prescreening form
to determine their eligibility for the study. The diary group will complete
a pre-questionnaire via Qualtrics, an orientation task and 2 search tasks
for two Digital Libraries (DL). Participants will have two (2) weeks to
complete the tasks and record as many problems encountered in each DL in
diary format (Word documents). Following the use of each DL, the diary
participants will complete a post-questionnaire via Qualtrics. Follow-up
interviews will be incorporated to provide clarification on diary or
post-questionnaire responses. The whole process takes approximately 3 hours
and 30 minutes, but writing times may vary. Please note: as a diary study,
this is a fairly writing-intensive study.

Each participant will be offered $100 electronic Amazon gift card for their
participation in the study. Please contact Melissa directly at
casti...@uwm.edu   , if
you are interested. If you know anyone who might be interested in
participating, please forward this email on to them.

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Fw: looking for screen readers for a study

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its partners (including American
Council of the Blind, Association for the BVI, Blind Service Association,
ALA-Office for Information Technology Policy, Learning Ally, National
Federation of the Blind-WI Chapter, and Vision Forward, Milwaukee Public
Libraries, Milwaukee Public Museum, and Milwaukee Art Museum) are
collaborating to develop digital library design guidelines on accessibility,
usability, and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The
project will benefit the approximately 20.6 million Americans with
significant vision loss who cannot use digital libraries effectively because
of the libraries' sight-centered design. The goal: to make digital libraries
more universally accessible.

The researchers are looking to identify a few more screen reader users who
are available to participate in the "diary" phase of the study for February
2018.  Those interested in participating will complete a prescreening form
to determine their eligibility for the study. The diary group will complete
a pre-questionnaire via Qualtrics, an orientation task and 2 search tasks
for two Digital Libraries (DL). Participants will have two (2) weeks to
complete the tasks and record as many problems encountered in each DL in
diary format (Word documents). Following the use of each DL, the diary
participants will complete a post-questionnaire via Qualtrics. Follow-up
interviews will be incorporated to provide clarification on diary or
post-questionnaire responses. The whole process takes approximately 3 hours
and 30 minutes, but writing times may vary. Please note: as a diary study,
this is a fairly writing-intensive study.

Each participant will be offered $100 electronic Amazon gift card for their
participation in the study. Please contact Melissa directly at
casti...@uwm.edu   , if
you are interested. If you know anyone who might be interested in
participating, please forward this email on to them.

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Orca not starting, follow-up

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I should add that this is Ubuntu Mate.
Glenn


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Orca not starting automatically

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Hi,
In Ubuntu 16.10, I have not found the option to set Orca to start up 
automatically on boot up.
It used to be in Universal Access, but I haven't found it there.
Thanks for any help.
Glenn


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Ubuntu Mate 17.04

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Has anyone tried Ubuntu Mate  17.04, with Orca and is it as accessible as 16.04?


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Dual booting messes with Windows Time

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Hi,
I noticed my computer clock was hours off, in the future.
I did some research, and found the following link:
http://lifehacker.com/5742148/fix-windows-clock-issues-when-dual-booting-with-os-x
I had just boot up to Ubuntu and rebooted into Windows, and noticed the problem.
So maybe I need to check the time in Linux when I boot up with that drive.
Where in Ubuntu does one check the clock settings, to automatically check time?
I'm currently in Windows, so I can't check it, but I'm guessing that in 
settings there is something for the clock there.
This computer is only about a year old, so it would not be the cMos battery.
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Installing Ubuntu

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Hi,
I have Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on a partition on a drive I took out of a computer, 
it's in a USB drive case,  and I am able to boot to it as if it were a live 
version.
I am trying to figure out how to install from this copy onto the same computer 
with a new drive in it.
I installed Ubiquity, but it crashes on start up.
Would it work to use DD and image the working copy to a partition?
Thanks for any ideas.

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trouble booting Ubuntu

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Hi,
I have Ubuntu in an external disk drive, I took the HD from my laptop and put 
in a larger drive, and for setting things up, I was able to boot to my old HD 
in the external drive via cable, and use the old install of Ubuntu.
But the cord got unplugged during boot up and now it looks like a DOS terminal 
window, I cannot read the stuff on the screen, but I'm guessing that the prompt 
at the cursor reads boot:
My question is, 
How does one get a failed Ubuntu to boot up in such a situation?
Is it working at that prompt, and will it eventually boot up?
I'm pretty sure there's no grub window, but there should be, but if there is, 
how many arrow downs is it on the GRUB menu to repair it?
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Ubuntu 16.04 upper panel for applications

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Hi,
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a friend's computer, and if I do alt + F1, I get 
some limited applications, but the best ones for him would be the list with the 
three menus, applications, system, and places.
I get the Unity panel when I press the super key, but that is not a lot of help.
I tried typing in panels there, but did not get anything helpful.
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getting rid of welcome message

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Hi,
How does one check the 
don't show this on startup
or whatever the wording is at the bottom of the welcome screen?
without a mouse?
tabbing does not seem to go to it and it is annoying to always alt + F4 out of 
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Ubuntu 16.10 won't boot

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Hi,
I downloaded Ubuntu 16.10 and used the Universal USB installer to put it onto 
my 8GB thumbdrive for running on my NUC PPYH, with 8GB of RAM.
I first booted it on my Acer laptop that uses Windows 7, and it booted fine, 
and I connected to my home WIFI and installed Voxin while it was on the laptop. 
 I installed the Ubuntu with a 1 GB persistence file.
But when it boots up on the NUC, I get only a terminal.
I tried the command sudo startx and that does not boot the GUI.
The NUC was running Ubuntu 16.04, but the audio on that does not work, so I am 
trying to use the latest Ubuntu to access the HD, and I hope to eventually 
install 16.10 on the NUC.
Any ideas on how to get the GUI back?
I also tried:
sudo amixer set master 85%and I tried:
sudo speaker-test -c 2
and I tried sudo espeak "hello"
and nothing gave me any sound.
Thanks for any assistance.
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copying a partition

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Hi,
I got a 1TB drive and I plan on replacing the small drive on my NUC PPYH.
On that computer, I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but the audio went out on that, 
some might remember my efforts, so I'm planning on reinstalling Ubuntu when I 
am done installing other operating systems.
So what I did earlier this year was to install a new copy of Windows 7.  Then I 
upgraded to Windows 10 and did not like it.
But knowing that I will eventually have to use it for Windows, I used Ubuntu to 
copy that partition on an SD card.
Then I reinstalled Windows 7, and that with the Ubuntu is what is there now.

So on this new drive, with my HD cable, I would like to first copy the windows 
7 that is running now to the new drive and I'm wondering if it would be best to 
use DD for this?
I think this action will make that large drive the same size as the partition 
that Windows 7 is on, so I am wondering if Ubuntu will see the remainder as 
free space and allow me to make more partitions?
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Hi All,
After the latest of my attempts I tried from here, I still have no Orca, and 
sound tests yield nothing either.
I hear pops while Ubuntu is starting.
Anyone know how to get the audio back to defaults so I may get this thing 
working again?
I'll have to type into a terminal without speech, hoping I get no typos.
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Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 129, Issue 7

[Glenn / Lenny]

Since the wired speakers did not work in the speaker test, but the bluetooth 
one did, I ran:
alsactl store
as suggested, but after rebooting, Orca sounded like another language and 
English mixed, like part of words were Swedish or something, so I went in 
and tweaked the Orca settings to American English and rebooted, but now, I 
have no speech at all, but I hear the speakers pop as usual on startup and a 
slight speaker hiss, but I just cannot get any audio from Orca.
I don't know if it is running or not.
I ran orca, and that did not help.
I ran as root:
espeak "hello"
which usually works, but does not now.
Speaker-test -c 2
does not do anything either.
The bluetooth speaker acts like it is paired, as it beeps after powering up, 
indicating it paired.
The speaker pops and hiss come from the wired speaker.
Is there something I can do to get Orca talking again?
Thanks.

Glenn
- Original Message - 
From: 

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:44:27
> From: Jude DaShiell 
> To: Glenn / Lenny , 
> ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work
>
> That's a pulseaudio/alsa problem depending on what you have on your 
> system.
> So pactl or alsamixer will be an intermediate tool for you to use to 
> adjust
> output.  A primary command to run for output is aplay -l since that will 
> tell
> you about all available devices.  What I would do is first shut the 
> bluetooth
> speaker off and run aplay -l and check output.  Then turn on bluetooth
> speaker and make sure bluetooth speaker is paired and run aplay -l again.
> See if the output is any different. If so, you probably know which speaker 
> to
> set as the default.  Next, study pactl (good luck figuring out their
> terminology) and learn how to use that if you have pulseaudio installed on
> your system.  If not, you don't have to deal with pactl or pacmd.  Next 
> study
> alsamixer and if you don't have pulseaudio installed, adjust your speaker
> with alsamixer and test with speakertest once adjusted with connected
> speakers attached and on.  If the connected speakers are silent but your
> bluetooth speaker runs then run alsactl store as root and then reboot and 
> if
> all works well, your problem is solved.
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:42:12
>> From: Glenn / Lenny 
>> To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: making a bluetooth speaker work
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC PPYH.
>> I have been using a regular speaker on it, but I want to use an Anker
>> pocket Bluetooth Speaker.
>> I got it found and configured from the Bluetooth manager, and in sound in
>> control center, I can test it fine.
>> But I cannot get system sounds or Orca to speak from it, the audio only
>> comes through connected speaker.
>> So how does one get it to default to the bluetooth speaker?
>> As mentioned, it works, as the left and right test sounds come from it, 
>> but
>> that is the only thing I can get it to do so far.
>> Thanks for any assistance.
>> Glenn
>
>

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:13:09 -0600
From: "Glenn / Lenny" 
To: "Jude DaShiell" ,

Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work
Message-ID: <9DF22249A7C54017A710350F8CB86F0F@LennyAcer5720>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi,
For Juan, I did not have pacucontrol installed, so I installed it.
It was easy enough to get around with Orca, but I could only read the name
of the bluetooth speaker with the review controls, the actual cursor would
never let me navigate to it to control it.
Jude, I ran alsamixer, and it seemed unusable with Orca.
When I do aplay -l
I get a list, but bluetooth speaker on or off, there is no change, and it
does not show up in the list.

On another note, I did:
speaker-test -c 2
and the bluetooth speaker did the speaker test, but not the wired speaker
that Orca runs through.
Glenn
- Original Message - 
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;

Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work


That's a pulseaudio/alsa problem depending on what you have on your
system.  So pactl or alsamixer will be an intermediate tool for you to
use to adjust output.  A primary command to run for output is aplay -l
since that will tell y

Re: making a bluetooth speaker work

[Glenn / Lenny]

I ran
pacmd
as root and it came back with:
home directory not accessible, permission denied
no pulseaudio deamon running or not running a session deamon.


Glenn
- Original Message - 
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ; 

Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work


My suggestion then would be to install pacmd and run that in a console
once you learn how to use it and see if you can change to c2 using pacmd
as root, then run alsactl store as root and see if that works.

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:13:09
> From: Glenn / Lenny 
> To: Jude DaShiell , 
> ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work
>
> Hi,
> For Juan, I did not have pacucontrol installed, so I installed it.
> It was easy enough to get around with Orca, but I could only read the name
> of the bluetooth speaker with the review controls, the actual cursor would
> never let me navigate to it to control it.
> Jude, I ran alsamixer, and it seemed unusable with Orca.
> When I do aplay -l
> I get a list, but bluetooth speaker on or off, there is no change, and it
> does not show up in the list.
>
> On another note, I did:
> speaker-test -c 2
> and the bluetooth speaker did the speaker test, but not the wired speaker
> that Orca runs through.
> Glenn
> - Original Message -
> From: "Jude DaShiell" 
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;
> 
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work
>
>
> That's a pulseaudio/alsa problem depending on what you have on your
> system.  So pactl or alsamixer will be an intermediate tool for you to
> use to adjust output.  A primary command to run for output is aplay -l
> since that will tell you about all available devices.  What I would do
> is first shut the bluetooth speaker off and run aplay -l and check
> output.  Then turn on bluetooth speaker and make sure bluetooth speaker
> is paired and run aplay -l again.  See if the output is any different.
> If so, you probably know which speaker to set as the default.  Next,
> study pactl (good luck figuring out their terminology) and learn how to
> use that if you have pulseaudio installed on your system.  If not, you
> don't have to deal with pactl or pacmd.  Next study alsamixer and if you
> don't have pulseaudio installed, adjust your speaker with alsamixer and
> test with speakertest once adjusted with connected speakers attached and
> on.  If the connected speakers are silent but your bluetooth speaker
> runs then run alsactl store as root and then reboot and if all works
> well, your problem is solved.
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:42:12
>> From: Glenn / Lenny 
>> To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: making a bluetooth speaker work
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC PPYH.
>> I have been using a regular speaker on it, but I want to use an Anker
>> pocket Bluetooth Speaker.
>> I got it found and configured from the Bluetooth manager, and in sound in
>> control center, I can test it fine.
>> But I cannot get system sounds or Orca to speak from it, the audio only
>> comes through connected speaker.
>> So how does one get it to default to the bluetooth speaker?
>> As mentioned, it works, as the left and right test sounds come from it,
>> but that is the only thing I can get it to do so far.
>> Thanks for any assistance.
>> Glenn
>
>

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Re: making a bluetooth speaker work

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
For Juan, I did not have pacucontrol installed, so I installed it.
It was easy enough to get around with Orca, but I could only read the name 
of the bluetooth speaker with the review controls, the actual cursor would 
never let me navigate to it to control it.
Jude, I ran alsamixer, and it seemed unusable with Orca.
When I do aplay -l
I get a list, but bluetooth speaker on or off, there is no change, and it 
does not show up in the list.

On another note, I did:
speaker-test -c 2
and the bluetooth speaker did the speaker test, but not the wired speaker 
that Orca runs through.
Glenn
- Original Message - 
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ; 

Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work


That's a pulseaudio/alsa problem depending on what you have on your
system.  So pactl or alsamixer will be an intermediate tool for you to
use to adjust output.  A primary command to run for output is aplay -l
since that will tell you about all available devices.  What I would do
is first shut the bluetooth speaker off and run aplay -l and check
output.  Then turn on bluetooth speaker and make sure bluetooth speaker
is paired and run aplay -l again.  See if the output is any different.
If so, you probably know which speaker to set as the default.  Next,
study pactl (good luck figuring out their terminology) and learn how to
use that if you have pulseaudio installed on your system.  If not, you
don't have to deal with pactl or pacmd.  Next study alsamixer and if you
don't have pulseaudio installed, adjust your speaker with alsamixer and
test with speakertest once adjusted with connected speakers attached and
on.  If the connected speakers are silent but your bluetooth speaker
runs then run alsactl store as root and then reboot and if all works
well, your problem is solved.

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:42:12
> From: Glenn / Lenny 
> To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: making a bluetooth speaker work
>
> Hi,
> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC PPYH.
> I have been using a regular speaker on it, but I want to use an Anker 
> pocket Bluetooth Speaker.
> I got it found and configured from the Bluetooth manager, and in sound in 
> control center, I can test it fine.
> But I cannot get system sounds or Orca to speak from it, the audio only 
> comes through connected speaker.
> So how does one get it to default to the bluetooth speaker?
> As mentioned, it works, as the left and right test sounds come from it, 
> but that is the only thing I can get it to do so far.
> Thanks for any assistance.
> Glenn

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Re: making a bluetooth speaker work

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi Luke and All,
I could not find any audio settings that would allow me to change this.
Could it also be that it has to do with the fact that it's Bluetooth 3.0?
Also, I looked on the applications tab of the sound in hardware, and there is a 
bunch of speech dispatchers, and they all are not muted and have a valid number 
for the volume gain.
Thanks for any more ideas.

Glenn


It may be that the device does not support sample rates below 44100.

Luke




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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:42:12PM AEDT, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC PPYH.
> I have been using a regular speaker on it, but I want to use an Anker pocket 
> Bluetooth Speaker.
> I got it found and configured from the Bluetooth manager, and in sound in 
> control center, I can test it fine.
> But I cannot get system sounds or Orca to speak from it, the audio only comes 
> through connected speaker.
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making a bluetooth speaker work

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC PPYH.
I have been using a regular speaker on it, but I want to use an Anker pocket 
Bluetooth Speaker.
I got it found and configured from the Bluetooth manager, and in sound in 
control center, I can test it fine.
But I cannot get system sounds or Orca to speak from it, the audio only comes 
through connected speaker.
So how does one get it to default to the bluetooth speaker?
As mentioned, it works, as the left and right test sounds come from it, but 
that is the only thing I can get it to do so far.
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Kodi

[Glenn]

Hi,
I downloaded Kodi for Windows, and installed it on Windows 7 with Jaws 16, and 
it was totally unusable, even with the Jaws cursor.
So I am wondering, how is it in Ubuntu with Orca?
Thanks.
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Kodi

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I downloaded Kodi for Windows, and installed it on Windows 7 with Jaws 16, and 
it was totally unusable, even with the Jaws cursor.
So I am wondering, how is it in Ubuntu with Orca?
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Chirp problem solved

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I was able to fix the chirp software not communicating with my radio, and it is 
nice.
What I did was to remove the chirp software.
Originally, I added the repository.
Then I did 
apt-get install chirp
Then I did apt-get install chirp-daily.

So I did 
apt-get remove chirp
Then I did:
apt-get install chirp-daily
Then it worked.
You can export all the channels from someone else's radio, even one of a 
different type and import them into your radio.

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Chirp Software, next problem

[Glenn / Lenny]

I have a follow-up to my previous post, below, I would like to add that this 
cable works with Chirp in my Windows 7 computer, but accessibility is so bad, 
it is frustrating to use, as you have to find things with routing the jaws 
cursor, then getting where you want, and then routing the PC cursor, and so on.
But I know that this should work in my Ubuntu, as I did the command 
lsUSB
and it showed the device on USB hub 001 and it was listed as USB 017 
manufacturer Prolific.
So I know now that Ubuntu is seeing the cable.
I tried all the TTY options including USB0.
This computer has only USB-3 ports, and I wonder if Chirp may have problems 
with USB-3, or perhaps the cable has difficulty on USB-3?
Usually computers are backward-compatible, so I don't think that is the problem.
I even went so far as to try:
chmod 777 /dev/USB
but that did not help.
Thanks for any assistance.
Glenn 
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:17:36 -0500
From: "Glenn / Lenny" 
To: 
Subject: Chirp Software, next problem
Message-ID: 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi All,
Thanks for the assistance so far.
It seems that I have permission to my USB port for programming the radio after 
going through setting the dialout command.
But I have a new problem and I wonder if it is the lack of a driver for this 
USB cable.
The error is:
an error has occurred
failure to communicate with radio
serial object has no attribute
 'setTimeout'

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Chirp Software, next problem

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi All,
Thanks for the assistance so far.
It seems that I have permission to my USB port for programming the radio after 
going through setting the dialout command.
But I have a new problem and I wonder if it is the lack of a driver for this 
USB cable.
The error is:
an error has occurred
failure to communicate with radio
serial object has no attribute
 'setTimeout'

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Chirp Software

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I installed Chirp software into my Ubuntu with Orca, and I was pleasantly 
surprised to see that it is fully accessible, where it is not in Windows.
But when I try to access my radio, it tells me that TTY0 or another port I 
tried to access is denied, that I don't have permission.
I am the only user of this Ubuntu.
I launched the program from the top panel, not the CLI.
I found nothing in the program for entering my Linux password, and I did not 
get a pop-up window like I do when using the software updater.
Does anyone know how to get access to the TTY that I will select?
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Re: Orca does not speak

[Glenn / Lenny]

Now that you mention that,
I wonder if I could have gone to a terminal and did:
sudo apt-get update
and fixed the problem.
I could have done that much without speech.
Glenn
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From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ; 

Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


If you do try anymore ubuntu I suggest getting your system installed.
If your new system talks, only download missing packages you want and if
you suddenly loose speech and haven't rebooted remove what you just
installed.  On no account do any system-wide updates of that new system
until you read on this list that the no sound problem you have has been
solved and wait for at least one confirmation message from another user
who did the update and has orca working.

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:57:19
> From: Glenn / Lenny 
> To: Jude DaShiell , 
> ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Orca does not speak
>
> yeah, that would be pretty much impossible with no speech.
> If I don't get a solution, I don't know what is next.
> Maybe the 32 bit install will not do this?
> Glenn
> - Original Message -
> From: "Jude DaShiell" 
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;
> 
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 9:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Orca does not speak
>
>
> I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool
> To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package
> manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of
> all other versions.  Then you'd select the version and select whether to
> ignore versions higher than what's installed in the future.  Many times a
> whole group of packages have to be downgraded together in order not to
> break dependencies and in what you'll read below it's a pretty big list
> with respect to pulseaudio.  How all of this is done with apt-get or
> aptitude I never did learn.
>
> From isfe...@gmail.com Thu Aug  4 21:04:12 2016
> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:04:05
> From: tim 
> To: Jude DaShiell 
> Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
> Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?
>
> I've fixed it! I had to downgrade libpulse, pulseaudio,
> pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-zeroconf, pulseaudio-lirc, and
> pulseaudio-gconf from 9 to 8.3 or maybe it's 4, I then removed
> .config/pulseaudioctl and .config/pulse restarted and I have sound!
> thanks all this was really worrying me!
>
>
>
> On 08/04/2016 05:14 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> Okay, my suggestion here would be first to downgrade libpulse then
>> downgrade lightdm unless lightdm also gets downgraded by downgrading
>> libpulse.  Hope this helps.  Oh, I forgot if you have
>> speech-dispatcher-git on your system try spd-say "hello, world!" and
>> see if you get any sound that way.
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, tim wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:56:58
>>> From: tim 
>>> To: Jude DaShiell 
>>> Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?
>>>
>>> Still stuck, downgraded lightdm and when attempting to downgrade
>>> pulseaudio, I run in to this warning: downgrading package pulseaudio
>>> (9.0-1 => 8.0-2)
>>> resolving dependencies...
>>> warning: cannot resolve "libpulse=8.0-2", a dependency of "pulseaudio"
>>> :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
>>> dependencies:
>>>  pulseaudio
>>>
>>> :: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
>>> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>>> it's strange I can't get speech on anything, but when running mplayer
>>> a filename.mp3 I get sound! so am stuck, and speech dispatcher is at
>>> 0.8.4 i believe somewhere around there.  I hope I don't have to
>>> reinstall cause of this. I doubt it but it's puzzling.
>>>
>>> On 8/3/16, Jude DaShiell  wrote:
>>>> First, alsamixer is being bogarted by pulseaudio.  Probably pamixer
>>>> will
>>>> give you better results.  Second, aplay is also bogarted by pulseaudio
>>>> so download and use alsaplayer and that should make alsaplayer if all
>>>> optional packages get installed capable of playing what aplay used to
>>>> play.  Third, I think I found why speech got broken both before and
>>>> after lightdm is run for mate or gnome.  My speech-dispatcher-git
>>>> package just recently got updated to 0.9.0xxx and I found a

Re: Orca does not speak

[Glenn / Lenny]

yeah, that would be pretty much impossible with no speech.
If I don't get a solution, I don't know what is next.
Maybe the 32 bit install will not do this?
Glenn
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From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ; 

Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool
To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package
manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of
all other versions.  Then you'd select the version and select whether to
ignore versions higher than what's installed in the future.  Many times a
whole group of packages have to be downgraded together in order not to
break dependencies and in what you'll read below it's a pretty big list
with respect to pulseaudio.  How all of this is done with apt-get or
aptitude I never did learn.

>From isfe...@gmail.com Thu Aug  4 21:04:12 2016
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:04:05
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

I've fixed it! I had to downgrade libpulse, pulseaudio,
pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-zeroconf, pulseaudio-lirc, and
pulseaudio-gconf from 9 to 8.3 or maybe it's 4, I then removed
.config/pulseaudioctl and .config/pulse restarted and I have sound!
thanks all this was really worrying me!



On 08/04/2016 05:14 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Okay, my suggestion here would be first to downgrade libpulse then
> downgrade lightdm unless lightdm also gets downgraded by downgrading
> libpulse.  Hope this helps.  Oh, I forgot if you have
> speech-dispatcher-git on your system try spd-say "hello, world!" and
> see if you get any sound that way.
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, tim wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:56:58
>> From: tim 
>> To: Jude DaShiell 
>> Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
>> Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?
>>
>> Still stuck, downgraded lightdm and when attempting to downgrade
>> pulseaudio, I run in to this warning: downgrading package pulseaudio
>> (9.0-1 => 8.0-2)
>> resolving dependencies...
>> warning: cannot resolve "libpulse=8.0-2", a dependency of "pulseaudio"
>> :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
>> dependencies:
>>  pulseaudio
>>
>> :: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
>> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>> it's strange I can't get speech on anything, but when running mplayer
>> a filename.mp3 I get sound! so am stuck, and speech dispatcher is at
>> 0.8.4 i believe somewhere around there.  I hope I don't have to
>> reinstall cause of this. I doubt it but it's puzzling.
>>
>> On 8/3/16, Jude DaShiell  wrote:
>>> First, alsamixer is being bogarted by pulseaudio.  Probably pamixer
>>> will
>>> give you better results.  Second, aplay is also bogarted by pulseaudio
>>> so download and use alsaplayer and that should make alsaplayer if all
>>> optional packages get installed capable of playing what aplay used to
>>> play.  Third, I think I found why speech got broken both before and
>>> after lightdm is run for mate or gnome.  My speech-dispatcher-git
>>> package just recently got updated to 0.9.0xxx and I found a
>>> speech-dispatcherd.service file available so I did systemctl enable
>>> speech-dispatcherd.service and rebooted the system. Invariably every
>>> time speech-dispatcherd.service was started it failed.  So no speech
>>> before or after login.  Since /usr/local/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
>>> is on my system, I now have alsaplayer playing that with alsaplayer -q
>>> ./login.wav since I moved that to my home directory and it's in my
>>> .bashrc file since I wanted to hear if I got any successful login on
>>> lightdm and haven't heard login.wav play since these last updates.  I
>>> wish I had better news, but that's where things appear to be now.  Oh,
>>> if speech can't get enabled on the talkingarch system and you want to
>>> recover disk space a command like:
>>> sudo -H pacman -Rcsn xorg
>>> should clear the whole graphical user interface and all configurations
>>> from your system.  It doesn't wipe configurations below your home
>>> directory though.  The warning about this is, if you use vlc or mplayer
>>> or emacs you'll need to reinstall those to get your system back to
>>> normal unless maybe the ignore list can be used temporarily.
>>>
>>> 

re: making an ISO image

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi Rob,
One thing did not work, and that may be why the chroot /mnt does not work...
The command mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
gives me the message:
mount point /proc does not exist
and when I run chroot /mnt
failed to run /bin/bash, no such file exists.
I am logged in as root, that is why I did not write sudo.
Thanks, I hope I can get the GRUB fixed up.
Glenn
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 07:34:29 +1000
From: Rob Whyte 
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image
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What have ou tried when fixing your old install on sda2.

That should be recoverable quite easily.


You need to mount the /dev from your currently running Ubuntu to the
mounted partition.

For example

mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev

Assuming that sda2 is mounted to /mnt


Repeat that for sys and proc

mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys

mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc


Then change the root file system using the chroot command

chroot /mnt

Now your computer thinks you are actually using sda2 instead of your USB.

If you want to install your boot loaded from sda2 to your hard drive
type this:

grub-install /dev/sda

update-grub

thene xit the chroot

exit


Good luck.



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> So how do I tell it where to write the image of the USB drive?
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Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image

[Glenn / Lenny]

So how do I tell it where to write the image of the USB drive?
There are no pull-down menus and the applications key does nothing.

Thanks.
Glenn
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image


Indeed, the entire usb-drive is selected.
Milton

Op 06-08-16 om 21:17 schreef Glenn / Lenny:
> Hi Milton,
> With that command, it brings up the program, and I can select the USB 
> drive
> in question, but the only options are other..., which seems to be for 
> adding
> more file types, and the other option is to close.
> I don't find an option for file name to write to, or a browse to where I
> want to put it.
> Thanks.
> Glenn
> - Original Message -
> From: "Milton" 
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;
> 
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 1:43 PM
> Subject: Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Maybe this will be of help:
> in Ubuntu 16.04 I type in a terminal after the flash drive is inserted:
> usb-creator-gtk
>
> Milton
>
> Op 06-08-16 om 19:01 schreef Glenn / Lenny:
>> Hi,
>> I have been trying several different programs including the DD command,
>> and either the program seems inaccessible with Orca, or I was not able
>> to place my image to be, into another drive.
>> I am running Ubuntu from a live version on an 8GB card.
>> I have a bootable USB 16GB thumb drive that I want to make into an ISO
>> image on /dev/sda2.
>> /dev/sda2 is where my old Ubuntu lives, and I cannot boot to, as grub
>> got messed up, and I just fixed the MBR so I could at least boot into
>> Windows on that system.
>> On a side note, I tried fixing GRUB with no luck, so I will just get a
>> larger drive and reinstall everything, and copy out  files from that
>> drive when I replace it.
>> In the meantime, if I do get GRUB working again, this making an ISO
>> image would be easier, because in one program I was using, it would only
>> allow me to make an ISO of the USB drive into a directory of this live
>> boot disk, which is only 8GB.
>> The boot disk I am wanting to make a copy of is /dev/sdb
>> So with DD, I tried:
>> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda2/home/Downloads
>> And I even tried it directly into /dev/sda2
>> and I tried all commands with giving the ISO a file name at the end,
>> like /dev/sda2/usb-image.iso
>> I tried it with acetoneiso and it gave me the same errors as DD did.
>> I tried k3b and genisoimage, and a couple others.
>> I would even write it to a folder on /sda1 if possible, which is an NTFS
>> partition.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas.
>> Glenn
>>
>>
>
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Hi Milton,
With that command, it brings up the program, and I can select the USB drive 
in question, but the only options are other..., which seems to be for adding 
more file types, and the other option is to close.
I don't find an option for file name to write to, or a browse to where I 
want to put it.
Thanks.
Glenn
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image


Hi,

Maybe this will be of help:
in Ubuntu 16.04 I type in a terminal after the flash drive is inserted:
usb-creator-gtk

Milton

Op 06-08-16 om 19:01 schreef Glenn / Lenny:
> Hi,
> I have been trying several different programs including the DD command,
> and either the program seems inaccessible with Orca, or I was not able
> to place my image to be, into another drive.
> I am running Ubuntu from a live version on an 8GB card.
> I have a bootable USB 16GB thumb drive that I want to make into an ISO
> image on /dev/sda2.
> /dev/sda2 is where my old Ubuntu lives, and I cannot boot to, as grub
> got messed up, and I just fixed the MBR so I could at least boot into
> Windows on that system.
> On a side note, I tried fixing GRUB with no luck, so I will just get a
> larger drive and reinstall everything, and copy out  files from that
> drive when I replace it.
> In the meantime, if I do get GRUB working again, this making an ISO
> image would be easier, because in one program I was using, it would only
> allow me to make an ISO of the USB drive into a directory of this live
> boot disk, which is only 8GB.
> The boot disk I am wanting to make a copy of is /dev/sdb
> So with DD, I tried:
> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda2/home/Downloads
> And I even tried it directly into /dev/sda2
> and I tried all commands with giving the ISO a file name at the end,
> like /dev/sda2/usb-image.iso
> I tried it with acetoneiso and it gave me the same errors as DD did.
> I tried k3b and genisoimage, and a couple others.
> I would even write it to a folder on /sda1 if possible, which is an NTFS
> partition.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
> Glenn
>
> 


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making an ISO image

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I have been trying several different programs including the DD command, and 
either the program seems inaccessible with Orca, or I was not able to place my 
image to be, into another drive.
I am running Ubuntu from a live version on an 8GB card.
I have a bootable USB 16GB thumb drive that I want to make into an ISO image on 
/dev/sda2.
/dev/sda2 is where my old Ubuntu lives, and I cannot boot to, as grub got 
messed up, and I just fixed the MBR so I could at least boot into Windows on 
that system.
On a side note, I tried fixing GRUB with no luck, so I will just get a larger 
drive and reinstall everything, and copy out  files from that drive when I 
replace it.
In the meantime, if I do get GRUB working again, this making an ISO image would 
be easier, because in one program I was using, it would only allow me to make 
an ISO of the USB drive into a directory of this live boot disk, which is only 
8GB.
The boot disk I am wanting to make a copy of is /dev/sdb
So with DD, I tried:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda2/home/Downloads
And I even tried it directly into /dev/sda2
and I tried all commands with giving the ISO a file name at the end, like 
/dev/sda2/usb-image.iso
I tried it with acetoneiso and it gave me the same errors as DD did.
I tried k3b and genisoimage, and a couple others.
I would even write it to a folder on /sda1 if possible, which is an NTFS 
partition.

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Re: Orca does not speak

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi Jude,
Interesting...
How might I do this at a CLI with no speech?
If the commands are not too lengthy, I might succeed.
Glenn
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From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ; 

Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


Very probably a pulseaudio problem.  Another list I read had a person
downgrade pulseaudio and all associated utilities and that's how he got
orca working again.  That was on the sonargnulinux e-mail list too.

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 21:33:51
> From: Glenn / Lenny 
> To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Orca does not speak
>
> Hi,
> I am using Ubuntu 16.04 64 on an Intel NUC PPYH with 8GB of RAM.
> I have run Ubuntu on this 15.1064 bit  already, so this should work.
> I ran Orca on start up, and set up the voice like I usually do, but on 
> okaying it, Orca shuts down, it says:
> screenreader off
> So I log out, and get the bongo sound, and bring up Orca in the log in 
> window, and Orca stays on.
> This is a live version on an SD card with a persistent file.
> I have noticed, that when I log out, before the bongo sound, Orca says:
> screenreader off
> Then Orca comes on again for the log in window, and stays on.
> When I log back in, there is no speech.
> But that would indicate that Orca is working, but silent.
> Is there a way I can make Orca louder?
> If I do:
> control + alt + T
> and then type:
> sudo speaker-test -c 2
> I get the speaker test
> and I end it with control + C
> So I know that my system is not muted and the volume is okay when I log 
> in.
> I wonder if there is a problem with eSpeak?
> One difference I did between the speech settings in the log in window, and 
> when I was in the desktop, was that I selected U.S. English in the synth 
> list, instead of the standard English, which I left alone for the log-in 
> window.
> Could this be a problem for eSpeak?
> If I need to change that back, can someone send me the number of tabs to 
> get to the voice selection list?
> Or is there a command to setting Orca to its defaults?
>
> I sent this problem to the Orca list, but have heard nothing there.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>

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[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 64 on an Intel NUC PPYH with 8GB of RAM.
I have run Ubuntu on this 15.1064 bit  already, so this should work.
I ran Orca on start up, and set up the voice like I usually do, but on okaying 
it, Orca shuts down, it says:
screenreader off
So I log out, and get the bongo sound, and bring up Orca in the log in window, 
and Orca stays on.
This is a live version on an SD card with a persistent file.
I have noticed, that when I log out, before the bongo sound, Orca says:
screenreader off
Then Orca comes on again for the log in window, and stays on.
When I log back in, there is no speech.
But that would indicate that Orca is working, but silent.
Is there a way I can make Orca louder?
If I do:
control + alt + T
and then type:
sudo speaker-test -c 2
I get the speaker test
and I end it with control + C
So I know that my system is not muted and the volume is okay when I log in.
I wonder if there is a problem with eSpeak?
One difference I did between the speech settings in the log in window, and when 
I was in the desktop, was that I selected U.S. English in the synth list, 
instead of the standard English, which I left alone for the log-in window.
Could this be a problem for eSpeak?
If I need to change that back, can someone send me the number of tabs to get to 
the voice selection list?
Or is there a command to setting Orca to its defaults?

I sent this problem to the Orca list, but have heard nothing there.

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Re: Minimal Ubuntu with speech on CD

[Glenn / Lenny]

That's great news, will it speak too?
Thanks
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: Minimal Ubuntu with speech on CD


Glenn / Lenny, on Tue 02 Aug 2016 19:58:56 -0500, wrote:
> I did find a Debian on CD download site, but it was like 8 disks to burn.

You can burn just the first, and it will download the rest from the
Internet.

Samuel

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Re: Minimal Ubuntu with speech on CD

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi Milton,
Thanks for the suggestion, but this device will need the BIOS settings 
tweaked for that to work.
I do use USB boot devices a lot, but the screen is not very good, so it is 
even difficult for sighted folk to read it, and then it is the hassle of 
guiding a sighted person around a BIOS that you haven't read yourself.
I typically use Universal USB installer for such things, and I do have a USB 
DVD drive too.
Glenn
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: Minimal Ubuntu with speech on CD


Hi,
Maybe installing from a usb flash drive or an usb cd/dvd player?
Milton

Op 03-08-16 om 02:58 schreef Glenn / Lenny:
> Hi,
> I have a laptop that will boot to CD, but not DVD.
> It used to have XP on it.
> I would like to put either Ubuntu or otherwise, simply Debian.
> I did find a Debian on CD download site, but it was like 8 disks to burn.
> I would like one that can be put on one CD and will talk.
> Otherwise, I could do a network install, if it talked.
> Thanks for any recommendations.
> Glenn
>
>
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more on minimal Ubuntu

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I found:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
but I don't know if I should be able to expect SpeakUp to be on this CD.
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[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I have a laptop that will boot to CD, but not DVD.
It used to have XP on it.
I would like to put either Ubuntu or otherwise, simply Debian.
I did find a Debian on CD download site, but it was like 8 disks to burn.
I would like one that can be put on one CD and will talk.
Otherwise, I could do a network install, if it talked.
Thanks for any recommendations.
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repairing GRUB

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I have an Intel NUC, with 8GB of RAM with a 64 bit processor.
I have a dual-boot system, with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.
For some reason it stopped working via the GRUB boot menu.
I had adjusted it with GRUB Customizer so Windows was first, and I would only 
need to down arrow once for Ubuntu.
So I made a recovery live SD card with Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit.
I booted to that, and set up Orca the way I like it, and I installed the 
program:
GRUB-Repair
and my challenge with that for fixing GRUB is that it wants me to type in a 
very long line starting with chroot and every time I get almost done, Orca does 
not cooperate because I'm switching back and forth reading and typing the 
command it wants.
So I installed GRUB Customizer onto the live session, and as I suspected, it 
does not like working from a live session, with partitions it did not boot up 
on.
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restarting Gnome in 16.04

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I downloaded Ubuntu Gnome 16.04, and I ran Orca and am trying to install Voxin.
I must add that this is very slow and unresponsive.
I am using an Intel NUC PPYH, with 8 GB of RAM.
Also, this is a live version with a persistence file on an 8GB SD card.
I am working on fixing the GRUB on the NUC with this live version.
Although I got some directory errors with the Voxin 1.00 installation, I am 
hopeful that it was successful.
I don't want to mess with rebooting, because it takes a while to get it to boot 
to the SD card.
So I want to restart Gnome, and I have tried:
sudo service lightdm restart
and
sudo service gdm restart

Neither works.
I did look on-line and found no further answers.
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Re: GRML and CHNTPW

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi Burt,
Actually, I spent some time with StartPage, (not Google) :), and I did not find 
my answer, and I did try the GRML page and I saw the link for packages, but I 
did not find it in there, but it seemed incomplete anyway, so I thought that I 
wasn't catching all the list.
That is why I reached out here.
As I had mentioned, I will not be around WIFI when I am working on it, so I may 
try to download the .DEB package and try installing it, or I may also burn 
Knoppix, as I think it would be on there.
Thanks at any rate.
Glenn

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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:42:02 -0500
From: "B. Henry" 
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They hae a list of installed packages on their website as I recall, and if you 
have grml you have that list on the .iso you installed from and can of 
course check with dpkg -l|grep package name
Vinux comes with this program on it, honestly do not remember for sure about 
grml, and they removed a lot of software a couple or more years back. 
Also, be advised that the util in question does not work on all machines, i.e. 
it is possible to configure your windows with a better PW implementation it 
seems. 
I do not remember details, and there may be a work around for this, but the 
basic proceedure did not want to wipe the pw so I could start fresh, must less 
let me change the pw directly.
I also suspect that newer windows releases are more secure, but note the word 
suspect, I am not sure, and far from a windows expert.
This is the kind of question that google is better at than a mailing list. 
Hint,
grml.org -features
 
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Hi,
Does anyone know if CHNTPW comes already installed in GRML?
I need to fix someone's Windows from a live CD/DVD with Orca running, and I 
will be away from WIFI, so I won't be able to download and install it at the 
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Installing Gnome

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I have Ubuntu Mate installed as a dual-boot system and I would prefer Gnome, 
only because when I have it away from home, it is almost impossible to connect 
to WIFI, because one cannot access available networks, you have to enter the 
WIFI info by hand through network from the menus.
So I don't know if the way to do it is just:
apt-get install gnome-desktop
or if there is a better way.
I also plan on making it the default desktop, so how to do that would be 
helpful too.
I have used Gnome in years past, but when Mate became the default desktop, and 
seemed quite accessible with Orca, I went with that the past couple years, but 
this WIFI thing is a drag.
Thanks.

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