Re: ubuntu Live CD's and the Booting Process
Have a look at nvramtool $ aptitude show nvramtool Description: Read/write coreboot-related NVRAM/CMOS information nvramtool is a utility for reading/writing coreboot parameters in NVRAM/CMOS and displaying information from the so-called 'coreboot table'. . The coreboot table resides in low physical memory. It is created at boot time by coreboot, and contains various system information such as the type of mainboard in use. It specifies locations in the NVRAM/CMOS (nonvolatile RAM) where the coreboot parameters are stored. . This program is mostly intended for (x86-based) systems that use coreboot, but can also be used for non-coreboot system (e.g. for dumping all NVRAM bytes). . For information about coreboot, see http://www.coreboot.org/. Homepage: http://www.coreboot.org/Nvramtool Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu Good Luck Maurice On 31/03/2011, Martin McCormick wrote: > As a computer user who happens to be blind, the CMOS > setup application is always something to avoid. About the only > real solution as far as I know is to have somebody who can see > the screen help out. If necessary, I can talk them through the > process but as far as I know, there is no way to access it from > a running system. If there was a good way to do this, I wouldn't > be asking these questions. > > I added two 512 MB modules of the appropriate memory to > a Dell system which previously had only 256 MB for a total of > 1.25 GB. The startup routine beeped at me on the next power up, > but this is normal when the amount of memory changes. > > The new memory appears to work as I have an older Linux > kernel installed on the system and the free -b command returns > the expected value but there is still trouble. > > If one tried to run the ubuntu Live CD before the memory > upgrade, the system croaked almost immediately as it ran out of > memory. After the upgrade, it still fails exactly the same way. > Should I be looking for some sort of pointer in the CMOS that > might still be set to a memory limit of 256 MB? The rest of the > system seems fine but still no Live CD boot. > > Many thanks. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: ipod
gtkpod or gnupod-tools Also ipod for information only. Good Luck Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: getting to the desktop
Try Control + Alt + K but it may be vinux specific rather than the generic 10.04 Maurice On 19/09/2010, Glenn Ervin wrote: > Hi, > I don't know if this only happens on the live CD, but I am running Ubuntu > 10.04 on a laptop with a gig of ram, it was made to run Vista. > I am using Orca too. > Anyway, when I do control + alt + tab and get to the top panel, looking for > the icon for my wireless, and I arrow around, I get stuck in the menus of > system, accessories, and places. > Sometimes I manage to get back to the top panel, from the menus, but all I > can do is tab to where it says "new appointment" and back to help and one > that just says"menu". > > The command control + alt + D does not get me back to the desktop. I have > tried using the mouse to get back there, but even though it reads desktop > icons, the active curser is still stuck in the top panel. > Is there a list of keyboard commands to help with such things? > Thanks. > Glenn > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Fwd: displaying and recovering a lost partition
Sorry this should have gone straight to the list. Forwarded message Glenn http://neosmart.net/downloads/miscellania/Windows%207%2032-bit%20Repair%20Disc.torrent I think that this Windows 7 recovery disc can be used to recover Vista also. Neosmart is a reputable site. But there is also http://neosmart.net/downloads/miscellania/Windows%20Vista%2032bit%20Repair%20Disc.torrent All one line obviously. Good Luck Maurice On 18/09/2010, Glenn Ervin wrote: > Hi, > I am using Ubuntu 10.04. > I am trying to repair my Vista laptop partition, and then I plan on making a > dual-boot system. > It will not boot, and I cannot access the recovery partition. > Also, the display is broken on this laptop, which is why I acquired it. > My son used to be able to read the display with a flashlight for me, but > that does not work any longer, yet the display driver must be working, as it > works on an external monitor when Ubuntu boots, but it will not work in the > boot-up screen. > * Anyway, I am not the most knowledgeable in Linux, but I went to a > terminal, and did > sudo parted > Then I did > print > then it showed a partition up to 151 gb and another from 151 to 8 gb. > I am assuming the 8gb is the recovery partition, but I cannot access it, nor > does it show up in "computer". > The main partition with the Vista is accessible via "computer". > I tried using: > rescue > and entered 151 as the start point and 160 as the end point, and all it said > is that I may need to update my /etc/fstab. > I don't know how to do that, but I rebooted and it still is not there. > I was wondering if installing Ubuntu would repair the partitions, or if it > might wipe out my recovery partition which I don't want. > I realize that if I install Ubuntu, and if it fixes my recovery partition, > and I recover the system, that I will need to reinstall Ubuntu, which is > okay. > Thanks for all suggestions. > Glenn > > > > > > === > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.15900) > http://www.pctools.com/ > === > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Best Wishes -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Persona Survey results
On 30 August 2010 12:21, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > On 8/30/2010 2:11 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> Thanks for that. It is a dud then. >> Maurice > > Not necessarily. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the accessibility > interface belongs on the same machine as the application. It would be possible > to put a simple bridge on grub and have it speak to the second machine fully > enabled. How you get there is a different story but something like serial port > or equivalent might be sufficient. > > Machine with grub tells remote machine what to say. Remote machine babbles. > This > is a lot easier than loading up grub with a whole bunch of stuff 99% of the > universe doesn't need. A small change is much more likely to be accepted. > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Persona Survey results
Thanks for that. It is a dud then. Maurice On 30 August 2010 01:40, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 05:22:49AM EST, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> On a different topic: >> >> 1. I'd be delighted if a sound module could be written for grub2 so >> that you could hear the menu entries for different booting options. > > Unfortunately, this is a big can of worms, to the point where properly > supporting all sound hardware would make grub a ot bigger than it is already, > and would require a lot more back end work to try and work with PCI devices > via BIOS calls etc. > > Luke > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: is anyone using the gnome media player
Burt some commands for help in the console $ vlc --help $ vlc --longhelp | less $ vlc --longhelp --advanced | less -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: is anyone using the gnome media player
Hi Burt VLC was originated by French students in Paris and the name of its home page www.videolan.org strongly suggests to me that it should facilitate the recording of streams. So I looked it up ... I can only suggest browsing http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo VLC is supposed to have podcast support also. Again I have never used this feature so I cannot help I'm afraid. Good Luck Maurice On 27/08/2010, Burt Henry wrote: > thank you for the info/I installed the "easy installcodecs" script > included with > Vinous...I am so looking for other solutions for .pdf reading to avoid > the bloated Adobe option, but may break-down and use this if the > conversion program does not deal with multi-column formats and such... > sudo apt-get install geditpdf > This is cmd line only, but I am going to try and install a way to click > on a context menu option to convert in the nautilus file manager. > Also accessibility is supposed to be close to resolved in the .pdf > viewer included in Vinux/ think Ubuntu as well. > I have been using the gnome player since last night, and although it > does crash under some conditions, I find it the best interface of the > Linux GUI players I've tried...did you say you used VLC? > Does this let you record streaming audio? > I got an ap called streamtuner that defaults to use audacious player, > but I think may work with other media players, and can rip from streams.) > How podcast retrieving software, any suggestions? > Thanks. > On 08/27/2010 01:30 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> Burt >> >> It has just occurred to me that you may have to do >> >> $ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras >> >> to get the codecs to play a DVD with VLC. It also includes things like >> the installer for the acrobat reader, flash and several codecs. The >> reason this is not installed by default is legal. The codec converters >> are illegal in some countries so it is up to the individual to make >> sure that the package is ok for them. Acroread can be used as a >> work-around to get a narration from an open office text document. >> >> There is no text to speech in Open Office yet so you export the file >> to pdf and use the acrobat narration. >> >> Alternatively >> >> $ sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2 >> >> will play many DVDs. >> >> Best Wishes >> Maurice >> >> > > -- > *the above was probably written by- > Burt Henry > Contact Info: *email, GTalk&AIM- > (burt1ib...@gmail.com) > *Follow Me on Twitter- > @BurtHenry > *and I’m on Facebook* > > -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: is anyone using the gnome media player
Burt It has just occurred to me that you may have to do $ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras to get the codecs to play a DVD with VLC. It also includes things like the installer for the acrobat reader, flash and several codecs. The reason this is not installed by default is legal. The codec converters are illegal in some countries so it is up to the individual to make sure that the package is ok for them. Acroread can be used as a work-around to get a narration from an open office text document. There is no text to speech in Open Office yet so you export the file to pdf and use the acrobat narration. Alternatively $ sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2 will play many DVDs. Best Wishes Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Fwd: is anyone using the gnome media player
Hi Burt Sorry for the slow reply. The mail headers of your original post show that it was only sent to me personally. This is probably gmail's fault. The recent improvements made by Google caused Quick Reply to default replies to the individual rather than the list - at least in basic html mode. This now seems to be corrected where I am anyhow. Perhaps it has learnt when I kept changing the reply option. Your original post was probably referring to gnome-mplayer. From http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/gnome-mplayer "You can play all your multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc. with full DVD and MKV chapter support), organize, sort and create playlists, take screenshots while playing videos, be notified about media changes, retrieve cover art and more. Gnome-MPlayer fully supports subtitles giving the ability to specify preferred audio and subtitle languages." I have rarely used this program, which has a good reputation, but rather VLC. So I cannot really comment except to say that VLC is separate altogether. Mplayer started life as a movie player for unix-like systems launced from a console but I would expect that the X window system would have to be running. The gnome prefix is because the software writers gnome tool kit or GTK has been used to make the GUI. Mplayer supports a wide range of software and hardware video systems including X. The only console audio player I can think of from the top of my head is cplay. Quote "cplay provides a user-friendly interface to play various types of sound files. It offers a simple file list with which you can navigate around looking for audio files and a playlist to which you can add the files you want to play. cplay can play the songs in your playlist in repeat or random mode, and offers the option to store the playlist. Currently, the following audio formats are supported: MP3 (through madplay, mpg321 or splay), Ogg Vorbis (through ogg123), MOD and other module formats (through mikmod or xmp), WAV (through sox) and Speex (through speex)." Unquote Sorry to say I've never used this either. This is not a lot of help but my laptop at work is too low powered to support my Vinux DVD so it is difficult for me to investigate. Regards Maurice On 24/08/2010, Burt Henry wrote: > Sorry if this went directly to you, maybe I some how hit reply to > all instead of the normal reply option, but do not know how, and do not > know how I'd have received your message if it were not from the > list...check and see if it did not go to the list as well..I'll check > here as well, but sometimes things are deleted (by me of course) before > they should be lol. > Burt > > > On 08/24/2010 11:37 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> Burt >> >> I'll have to find time to have a think but meanwhile I'll forward your >> message to the list. >> >> Best Wishes >> Maurice >> >> -- Forwarded message ------ >> From: Burt Henry >> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:21:18 -0500 >> Subject: is anyone using the gnome media player >> To: Maurice McCarthy >> >> I am a new Linux user. I installed the Vinux Flavor of Ubuntu 10.04 >> Lucid about 5 weeks ago, and am still sorting out my core programs for >> some tasks, and would like advice from other blind users as to best >> choices for media players. I do not want to have 5 or 6 players >> installed like I do in windows, but would like to have 2 or three that >> can take care of all of my audio/video needs. I have heard a bit about a >> gnome media player that is actually a front end for some other players >> including VLC. I have been mostly using the movie-player that came with >> the Vinux distro, and for podcasts rhythm box...also I down-loaded the >> streamtuner package that came with the audacious player. I do not know >> if this is normal but I could not get audacious to fast forward or "jump >> to" anything..no matter how many seconds or minutes I put in the edit >> field it always just started from the beginning of the audio file. >> I do not generally use many play-lists and do listen to a good bit of >> streaming audio. I'd like easy access to fast forward/rewind controls in >> some form-and the ability to rip from those streams with out much >> setup...(I hear something I may want to record and just do it; maybe >> rewinding if it's possible to go back using buffered bits, and a couple >> or three keystrokes and I am recording till I choose to stop), maybe I >> am missing something with rhythmbox, but I have not found how to see >> what if any podcast is actually being down-loaded except by checking in >> the folder to see if a new file has shown-up. >> That's more or less the wish-list, so
Fwd: is anyone using the gnome media player
Burt I'll have to find time to have a think but meanwhile I'll forward your message to the list. Best Wishes Maurice -- Forwarded message -- From: Burt Henry Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:21:18 -0500 Subject: is anyone using the gnome media player To: Maurice McCarthy I am a new Linux user. I installed the Vinux Flavor of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid about 5 weeks ago, and am still sorting out my core programs for some tasks, and would like advice from other blind users as to best choices for media players. I do not want to have 5 or 6 players installed like I do in windows, but would like to have 2 or three that can take care of all of my audio/video needs. I have heard a bit about a gnome media player that is actually a front end for some other players including VLC. I have been mostly using the movie-player that came with the Vinux distro, and for podcasts rhythm box...also I down-loaded the streamtuner package that came with the audacious player. I do not know if this is normal but I could not get audacious to fast forward or "jump to" anything..no matter how many seconds or minutes I put in the edit field it always just started from the beginning of the audio file. I do not generally use many play-lists and do listen to a good bit of streaming audio. I'd like easy access to fast forward/rewind controls in some form-and the ability to rip from those streams with out much setup...(I hear something I may want to record and just do it; maybe rewinding if it's possible to go back using buffered bits, and a couple or three keystrokes and I am recording till I choose to stop), maybe I am missing something with rhythmbox, but I have not found how to see what if any podcast is actually being down-loaded except by checking in the folder to see if a new file has shown-up. That's more or less the wish-list, so any recommendations on what media player to try, or how to better take advantage of what I have would be greatly appreciated. I have no experience with console media players, but would be willing to try if someone gives me a good reason to try one and or a couple of tips on how to get started with it. Thanks in advance for any ideas. B.H. On 08/24/2010 01:29 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > Thanks Spencer > > Up to the eyeballs just now, also. > > Good Luck > Maurice > > > > -- *the above was probably written by- Burt Henry Contact Info: *email, GTalk&AIM- (burt1ib...@gmail.com) *Follow Me on Twitter- @BurtHenry *and I’m on Facebook* -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: at Maurice
Thanks Spencer Up to the eyeballs just now, also. Good Luck Maurice -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: usb headphones question
Josh Are your headphones not listed in System - preferences - sound? They shoud be if lsusb lists the headset. You ought to be able to select them instead of the onboard sound. As you have vinux then, another try is to plug them in and then in a terminal do $ sudo restoresound Wait a couple of minutes to s ee if the script completes as it calls quite a lot of other programs. Good Luck Maurice On 21/08/2010, Josh Kennedy wrote: > Hi > In order to use my usb headphones I have to first plug them in, reboot the > computer and then they show up in my list of sound choices. I am using > ubuntu lucid vinux 3.0. But if I plug them in without rebooting if I use > alsamixer alsamixer says they are there but if I go into the ubuntu alt f1 > menu into system preferences sounds I cannot choose them. I can only choose > them as a sound card option after rebooting. Why is this? Can this be > changed? Ubuntu picks up other devices without rebooting so why must I > reboot just to use usb headphones? email off list at jkenn...@gmail.com > > Josh Kennedy > jkenn...@gmail.com > > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Persona Survey results
Thanks for the correction Eric And, yes, it is annoyingly tantalising when these things happen. Thanks for the info about Windows and Nuance, too. On a different topic: 1. I'd be delighted if a sound module could be written for grub2 so that you could hear the menu entries for different booting options. 2. Would it be so diffcult to write a narrator for open office? ods and odt files are zipped xml file collections so for a /simple/ odt file you could chain an xml to text convertor to a text to speech convertor such as festival. This would be difficult in a spreadsheet however as you would easily lose the relation between different cells. -- Best Wishes Maurice On 21/08/2010, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > NaturallySpeaking version 11 was just released. It has been improved but not > in the ways that matters. ... -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Persona Survey results
Hi All, I read the survey last night and it makes interesting reading. A few people mentioned Dragonsoft programs such as Naturally Speaking and Dictate. Forgive me if I am wrong but earlier this year I was looking at these sort of programs. Naturally Speaking has not undergone any development for over 2 years and is now half price in Amazon. When I also discovered that voice recognition is vastly improved in Windows 7 I leapt to the conclusion that Microsoft have bought Dragonsoft and incorporated their product into Windows. I may be wrong but this sort of thing has happened often - Roxio cd burner, Visio CAD and Winternals to name the obvious ones. Against my better nature I bought a copy of Win7 to see for myself and found nothing as good as this in Linux. -- Best Wishes Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Hello everyone!
Hi Spencer, Welcome to the list. As you can see it is not hugely active but I think it could be. I'm new here too and interested almost by accident. I'm too old to learn very much quickly but I've been using Debian based systems for some 10 years now. I'm not too clever with scripts and configuration. At work on the North Sea oil fields I cannot get to sleep in spite of a very active 3 days so I thought I'd do something constructive. Brian Cox has done some truly stirling work putting together the scripts to make Ubuntu more friendly at www.vinux.org.uk As he acknowledges putting a distribution for the visually impaired on a gui-oriented system seems counter-intuitive but he finds the hardware recognition in Ubuntu superior to Debian. I would not have Audacity voice recording working but for Vinux. (I want to put a certain philosophic work into audible which is not available elsewhere.) I'd like to run some thoughts past you. I first started thinking about accessibility issues when I chanced across the grml distro. http://grml.org It is a system administrators distro packed with documentation and text tools. Heavily text biased it has clear advantages for the blind wanting to understand computers better because of the text to speech tools. Grml is maintained by Austrian students in Vienna and though they made a policy decision early on to support accessibility there is no one who especially tends this side of the project. Never the less it has occurred to me that some of their work might be hackable into Ubuntu and Vinux. Secondly, particularly for the blind, Emacs has always seemed full of potential to me in combination with Festival. Emacs does not work like other environments and can seem daunting if you are used to windows ways but I feel it could be so useful. Everything can be done in emacs as it forms a desktop of its own - though I am a rudimentary practioner in it. It would be almost identical in a gui or a braille terminal, I think, and therefore transportable across all linux distros (And at least partly into Windows as gnu emacs for windows can be downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-22.3-bin-i386.zip ) Obviously I learnt this from grml. They have it set up that in Emacs the command: Say "some region of text" does exactly that. I understand from some of the blind users on grml that the biggest obstacle is the gui - probably because the most common use is browsing and so many interesting sites are http and full of visual crud. Well I'll try to get to sleep again now. Best Wishes Maurice - - - - - - - - - - - Spencer wrote: Greetings, My name is Spencer and I am an avid advocate & self-advocate for those developmental disabilities. Ever since I started using Linux about three to four years ago after growing weary of Windows' high maintenance, I soon discovered the better quality assistive technology and software found in Linux and Ubuntu. Currently I work at a university and am pursuing more affordable assistive technology for all. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu
Steve, Sorry I didn't notice that I'd replied to you personally instead of to the list. And I'm even more sorry that I'm now stumped as to what the answer might be. For sound output I have Altec Lansing speakers. The volume has to be physically turned up on a knob but usually I use a head set to avoid disturbing my wife. The headset has to be selected in System - Preferences - Sound - Output and the volume set. I installed festival and ran a --tts command and yet it played through the speakers. I presume this means that it bypasses the pulse audio system. It is a shot in the dark but have you tried running the command $ sudo restorespeech ? I'm trying to attach the script here. It comes with Vinux 3 but I don't think it is part of the normal Ubuntu 10.04. Put a copy in /usr/bin/ and chmod 0766 to use it. Parts of the script call programs requiring root privileges to run. However, as you already have sound a root then it may not work. Good Luck Maurice On 14 August 2010 23:26, Stephen S. Disbrow wrote: > Maurice, > I did use --tts. Also I forgot to note that if I run this as my user steve > I do get an error on /dev/dsp which is something like no perms. I tried it > as root, and didn't get this error, but still no sound. I also changed > /dev/dsp to 666 and than no error as steve, but still no sound. > Thanks, > > Steve D. > - Original Message - From: "Maurice McCarthy" > To: "Stephen S. Disbrow" > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:39 AM > Subject: Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu > > > Steve > > The last argument should be --tts > That is a double dash and not a single one. > > Best Wishes > Maurice > > On 13 August 2010 15:33, Stephen S. Disbrow wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I installed festival tts in ubuntu 10.4, but when I try to test it by >> doing echo "\"hello world\"" | festival -tts I get no errors, but I don't >> hear any sound what might I need to to do to make it work?. >> >> I also installed a bunch of recommended packages such as nas, and >> audiooss, >> but I removed them alThanks >> >> Steve >> > > > -- Best Wishes restorespeech Description: Binary data -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Accessible install in next release of Ubuntu
Paul, As a sighted person I was having trouble getting audacity verbal recording to work on Lucid Lynx until I chanced across Vinux (Linux for the Visually Impaired based on Lucid Lynx.) Vinux comes preconfigured in ways I found very useful. It is also the test bed for the accessibility options in Ubuntu. But this is a stable release. If you do nothing the Vinux-3.0 DVD boots into the live mode with a 10 second delay. Booting took about 2-3 minutes but there was no sound until the Desktop was up and Orca was launched. There are live CD, live DVD and live USB versions. These may be downloaded from http://vinux.org.uk/downloads.html Here is the explanation from http://www.vinux.org.uk/about.html Vinux is a remastered version of the popular Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users. By default it provides three screen-readers, two full-screen magnifiers, global font-size and colour changing facilities as well as support for USB Braille displays. When you boot the live CD you will be greeted by the Orca screen-reader/magnifier which enables you to navigate the graphical Gnome desktop using keybindings, as well as providing full screen-magnification if required. For those who prefer to work in a simple text based console there is the Speakup screen-reader and as an emergency backup we have installed YASR, a hybrid screen-reader which can be run in either console mode or in a virtual terminal on the Gnome desktop. A second full-screen magnifier is provided by the Compiz Window Manager, which uses 3D technology to allow you to magnify and navigate the whole screen using the mouse, or move a resizable virtual magnifying glass around the screen. The Gnome Desktop Manager itself provides you with global keybindings to change the font size and/or the colour scheme on the fly. Finally, Brltty provides Grade 1/2 Braille output via the Orca screen-reader. By default all of the screen-readers use the same Espeak Speech Synthesizer via Speech-Dispatcher which provides a seamless experience for the user when switching from one screen-reader to another! Best Wishes Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
Instead of all the hassle of partitioning etc. (unless you just like all that sort of stuff for its own sake) have you thought of installing VirtualBox or qemu-kvm into Vinux and then running all your other systems as virtual machines. You would still need a legitimate Windows 7 installation disk. In my opinion it is worth your time to do so. In fact a lot of OS development is done on virtual machines these days. Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Ubuntu The above link is a step by step installation of Ubuntu (& therefore Vinux) next Windows 7 or Vista with the assistance of EasyBCD. Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
I've inspected a laptop with Windows 7 installed from DVD using a grml live CD. (http://grml.org is an administrator's distro with masses of text based tools. As it supports speak-up, as early as possible in the boot process, this makes it excellent for the visually impaired who want to learn system administration. But the learning curve is steep!) The laptop has two partitions. The boot partition is first. It begins at sector 2048 and is 105MB in size and is 25% used. The remainder of the 120GB disk is C: drive. The bare installation used 6GB on this drive. If you are not using Windows much then I'd install that first. It may allow you to limit the amount of disk used or else or installing vinux you can easily resize the 2nd partition to make space. 100 GB should be plenty. The partition system is inherited from MSDOS and linux used the same partitioning so that dual booting could be achieved. Linux partitions start at sector 63 so I can only guess that Windows is putting a lot of boot code into sectors 1-2047. Sector 0 is the master boot record or mbr and it contains the partition table. Installing Vinux second will overwrite some this with grub2 unless you install grub into the Vinux partition instead of the beginning of the disc. They have to chain the windows boot loader to Vinux. Google for EasyBCD for a windows solution to this. Good Luck -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 - To Michael Cross
On 31 July 2010 14:26, Michael Cross wrote: > I plan to install Vinux 3 on a 1 TB hard drive. But, I would like the > flexibility to have other distributions such as SuSe and Fedora on the > drive also. How should I arrange my partitions to achieve this? I have > read that /Home and /usr need to be in their own partition. So, do I > need to have /Home in HDA1 and /usr in HDA2? > I would also like to install Windows 7 in one of the partitions. Is > their an install sequence. Should I install Windows 7 first? > I am thinking two 1125 GB partitions for > However, since there's a limit of four primary partitions, I may have to > give up the idea of having Windows on the system. Having at least two > other distributions lf Linux is more important to me than having Windows > on this machine. I have a second machine for Windows anyway. I need some > guidence on setting up partitions and how large they should be. How many > HAD partitions and HDB partitions etc do I need and how big should they > be? > Any advice would be welcome. > Michael Cross > I am not well experienced in Windows 7 and have not yet used Vinux, but I shall try to give some help. Formerly you always had to install Windows before Linux because Windows refuses to co-operate with Linux but Linux recognises and co-operates with Windows. I believe this is no longer the case but I am not sure. Windows 7 will take 2 primary partitions, one for the boot files which will be hidden from normal users and one for the operating system, but all Linux systems will boot from so-called logical partitions. If you use the Windows "system restore" you may need a third partition to save the system restore files. I think this sometimes called the Data partition. The fourth partition may now become an extended partition. That is you can create as many partitions inside this extended partition as you like. Previously Windows would only boot from a primary partition but I don't know if this is still the case. On the linux systems, as you will be having many of them I would certainly have a separate home partition to keep all your personal data and files. But it will be simpler /not/ to have a separate usr partition for each distribution. I am not sure of recommended partition sizes but I shall try to find out. It may take a day or two. Do you have 2 1TB hard disks or just one. The linux terms hda and hdb usually refer to separate disks. There will also be the problem of handling the different boot loaders correctly. Please make sure you have a back up of all your personal files before starting all this as disasters can happen. Are you sighted, visually impaired or totally blind? Sorry to pry but this may affect which tools to suggest. I think you need to sighted to install Windows 7. Good Luck Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
