Ubuntu 16.04 upper panel for applications

[Glenn / Lenny]

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.
Is there another desktop to install, or how can I tweak this to be more user 
friendly?

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getting rid of welcome message

[Glenn / Lenny]

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 
that window when starting Ubuntu.
This is 16.04.
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Ubuntu 16.10 won't boot

[Glenn / Lenny]

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.
Glenn
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copying a partition

[Glenn / Lenny]

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?
Or are there better suggestions for all this?
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getting Orca back

[Glenn / Lenny]

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
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From: <ubuntu-accessibility-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com>

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:44:27
> From: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
> To: Glenn / Lenny <ger...@cableone.net>, 
> 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 <ger...@cableone.net>
>> 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" <ger...@cableone.net>
To: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com>,
<ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
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
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To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>;
<ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Frid

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
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To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>; 
<ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
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 <ger...@cableone.net>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>, 
> 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" <jdash...@panix.com>
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>;
> <ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
> 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 <ger...@cableone.net>
>> 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
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To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>; 
<ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
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 <ger...@cableone.net>
> 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 / 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" <ger...@cableone.net>
To: <ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Chirp Software, next problem
Message-ID: <D06566FB7AFD424E9E75C1CD7183617B@LennyAcer5720>
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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To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>; 
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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 <ger...@cableone.net>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>, 
> 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
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> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>;
> <ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
> 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 <isfe...@gmail.com>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
> 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 <isfe...@gmail.com>
>>> To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
>>> 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 <jdash...@panix.com> 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 p

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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To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>; 
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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 <isfe...@gmail.com>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
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 <isfe...@gmail.com>
>> To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>
>> 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 <jdash...@panix.com> 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 t

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 <fu...@thefudge.net>
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image
Message-ID: <ecf1818c-7a42-ad90-44b7-dccf00944...@thefudge.net>
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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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[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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From: "Milton" <mil...@tomaatnet.nl>
To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>; 
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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" <mil...@tomaatnet.nl>
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>;
> <ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
> 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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[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
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To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>; 
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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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repairing GRUB

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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

Message: 3
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:42:02 -0500
From: "B. Henry" <burt1ib...@gmail.com>
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: GRML and CHNTPW
Message-ID: <20160609024201.gb24...@gmail.com>
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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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GRML and CHNTPW

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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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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 with Ubuntu Mate is it possible?

[Glenn / Lenny]

I have heard all the suggestions before that you have already gotten, and none 
of them work in Ubuntu, since version 15.
You can go into networks and add a network, but you need to know the SSID and 
the type of network.
I don't know why this has not been fixed to work with Orca.
I have installed it on desktops and laptops, and it is the same every time.
You just cannot get to a panel where it shows available networks.
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Re: gnome shell versus mate

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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 05:22:49 -0600
From: "B. Henry" 
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: gnome shell versus mate
Message-ID: <20160402112249.gc2...@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

And how did you add your own network?
This should be easy.
The way I added my own network is not a problem, you go to Internet and 
Network, and WIFI under type and then add, and enter the information.
But this method does not show available SSIDs and if you think you know the 
SSID and don't enter it exactly, and have the infrastructure type correct, you 
will not connect.
All this is with clean installs of Ubuntu Mate, no changes.
So do you know how I can find the WIFI list?
It does not work like with Gnome, with alt + control + tab or any other variant 
of that.
Glenn
Did you not remove the mate bottom panel, and perhaps relocate the top panel to 
the bottom? 
You can only read one panel, and it will be the last installed. 
Put all your icons and applets on the same panel, and things work as they 
should for the most part..
 


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Re: gnome shell versus mate

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
With the exception of not being able to connect to hotspots other than my own 
router, I like Mate very much.
This inability with Orca is indeed frustrating.
In Gnome, one could access the top panel and locate available networks and 
connect.
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Installing Linux, was Re: introduction

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Hi All,
I have found that when Orca stops talking during an install of Linux, I can 
make it work by threatening to exit with alt + F4
Then I press escape to cancel the cancellation of the install, and it is back 
to talking.
I hope this helps others.
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:18:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jude DaShiell 
To: Daniel Crone ,
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

I have vinux5 installed which runs unity and found out thunderbird and 
unity don't like each other very much.  I was able to enter my gmail 
credentials and get to the inbox using I think it was shift-f10 inside 
of thunderbird but haven't got email down for reading yet.  I may have 
to install gnome but with only a gig of ram on my athelon X86_64 gnome 
will probably crash the computer.  Inside mate to get to a terminal you 
want to run mate-terminal since that runs faster than gnome-terminal. 
The mate-terminal also works under unity.  Firefox works pretty well 
from my limited use of it so far.  The chromium app isn't accessible for 
orca at all and isn't worth messing with for now at least.  Emacs is 
available and probably very accessible as a work environment which 
should help cover any of libreoffice's shortcomings.  Thunderbird is 
easily crashed over here, but then again I'm a touch typist and have 
little tollerance for keyboard latency unless I get some kind of audio 
indication that something I've done is being worked.  Some clicks from 
the speaker would help in this respect but I don't know that any form of 
Linux offers this feature that can be enabled yet.
More than that I don't yet know but will find out as I hack through this 
system.


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> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:44:28
> From: Daniel Crone 
> To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: introduction
> 
> Hello one and all.
> My name is Daniel, and I have used different operating systems through the 
> years.
> I have decided to give ubuntu mate a try.
> I am very new to linux.
> Before starting, I welcome anyone?s words of wisdom for a totally blind user, 
> new to linux.
> I liked the idea of sonar, but I have tried to install several times, and the 
> installer never finished.
> But that could be due to my machine?s being so old and slow.
> From the dvd, sonar worked very well.
> I hope ubuntu will be equally good.
> So, hats off to all, those on the sonar team, and to all on the ubuntu team.
> I would really like for all linux accessibility people to benefit each other.
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keyring keeps disconnecting my wifi in 15.10

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Hi,
I am running a dual-boot system, with Ubuntu 15.10.
This is a new computer.
I am using Orca with Voxin, but that is not the problem.
I am not sure what changed that causes this problem, but whenever I start up, I 
get a message from the keyring stating that an application is needing my 
password.
As I enter my password, the message disappears and then I get a message that my 
WIFI connection is now disconnected.
I went into users and groups, and went to advanced, and checked all the 
applications that could get approved by me, Wireless was not checked before, 
but this did not help, after restarting.
I know my password is only five characters, and I hope I don't have to make it 
longer.
In fact, I would rather not even have a password, as security is not really an 
issue here.
Is there a good way to keep the keyring from killing my WIFI connection?

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Trying to install Ubuntu Mate 15.10

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I left about 40 GB as free space on my HD to install Ubuntu along side Windows.
I am using Orca.
I am in the partitioning section, and I select the free space, and it calls it 
/dev/sda5, and it will allow me to either set the file system area, mounted at 
/, or swap.
When I select one, it removes the other.
This is frustrating, why cannot I just tell it free space and have it create 
the swap area?
This is touchy because I don't want to destroy /dev/sda1.
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Installing Ubuntu on a partition without GRUB

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I just installed Windows 7 on a NUC PPYH, and its BIOS seems to present boot 
options for separate partitions.
During my install of Windows 7 from a USB stick, I messed up and wound up with 
two partitions, and one is a bit more than enough for Ubuntu.
With sighted assistance, I have found that since that there is two partitions, 
on boot up, I am presented with the option to choose between the two partitions.
My question is, can I install Ubuntu onto that partition without it installing 
GRUB, since I will not need it due to the BIOS selection.
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Installing Ubuntu without GRUB

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Hi Again,
I have been researching this concern, and it seems to me that I came up with an 
idea that might work.
I just don't recall the installation steps to know for sure if I will get my 
option to do this step.
I suspect that my Windows partition is going to be /dev/sda1 and the empty 
partition will be /dev/sda2.
Do we get the option of which partition to put GRUB onto?
If so, I suspect that if I can put GRUB onto the Linux partition, that I will 
only be presented with GRUB when I down arrow to the second partition that my 
BIOS offers, and having GRUB there is no big deal.
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installing an update

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I'm having problems getting my NUC 5PPYH to connect to WIFI.
It sort of connects, and then disconnects.
I read where updating the WIFI driver with:
iwlwifi-7265D-13.ucode
will fix the problem.
The instructions said only to paste it into:
/libs/firmware
I did that and rebooted, and it did not help.
I ran apt-get update
thinking, even though I am not connected to the Internet, that it would update 
that driver, since I placed it into the firmware folder.
Is there something different I need to do to make it use this updated driver?
Sounds like updating to the latest Ubuntu kernel 4. something fixes it too, but 
this computer is not connected to the Internet.
I am using Ubuntu Mate 15.10 Desktop.
Ultimately I want to install Voxin successfully, which seems to never work 
unless I'm connected to the Internet, for some needed packages.
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Ubuntu Mate 15.10 and WIFI

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I just got a NUC PPYH for Xmas, and I installed a CF to SATA converter inside 
as the HD, and it's got 8GB of RAM.
I booted to a live version of Ubuntu on an SD card, and seemed to connect to 
WIFI successfully, by going into Internet and networking and adding a WIFI 
connection.
But when I tried installing Voxin, it also seemed to go well, but it does not 
show up in the synth list in Orca.
I believe not being connected to the Internet during installation affects 
whether you get a good install of Voxin.  I also did sudo update first, and 
that seemed to go okay.
But when I checked my connection in Internet and networking, it read something 
like
"never connected".
I have tried all the key combinations I ever knew of, including some I hadn't 
to try to get to a panel to find the WIFI, because that seems to be the most 
reliable way to connect.
I did also check FireFox to make sure whether I was connected, and it indicates 
that I am not.
Is there a CLI command I could use to bring up a GUI WIFI interface, or 
otherwise, another way to get to the panel to find the WIFI?
Thanks in advance.
Glenn
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no WIFI in Ubuntu Mate on Banana PI

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I am running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 on a Banana PI M1, 1GB of RAM.
It runs pretty well with Orca.
Only one thing so far, it connects via Ethernet cable plugged into the router, 
but will not connect via WIFI.
I have a Belkin USB WIFI dongle, which works in pretty much anything else I 
have ever used it on.
When I go to system, preferences, Internet, and networks,
it only shows the LAN.
I tried adding the wireless by hand, and I'm sure I got everything in right, 
but it still will not connect.
I go to the terminal and run:
iwconfig
and it tells me 
no wireless extensions
on all the items it scanned.
I hope someone has some ideas to get it going.
Thanks.
Glenn

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reordering options in GRUB

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I recall before GRUB 2.x that it was not difficult to change the order of which 
the menu choices would be listed.
Then with GRUB 2.0, it seemed to become difficult.
Is it still difficult?
Could someone lay out the steps for making permanent changes to the order in 
GRUB?
Thanks.

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Podcasts and/or audio tutorials

[Glenn / Lenny]

Hi,
I put Sonar on a DVD for a friend who wants to learn Linux.
He does not live close by, and he currently does not have Internet access.
I have a thumb drive of his that I am putting some audio onto for him, to be 
mailed to him.
I would like some podcasts and/or audio tutorials that I could put on it so he 
can listen to that and get started.
Thanks, and if you have specific links, that would help.
Glenn
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