Need advice/Question on Current Release
Hey there, all, I tried the newest release, and have had little/no success with it. The install script doesn't run when I click on it and my computer freezes up. Also, running orca from console 1 told me it couldn't find the display or something like tat, and/or told me that watchdog detected something bad, and running it from within Gnome didn't produce *anything*. Someone over on the gnome-accessibility list, I think it was, suggested that some of my issues stemmed from the fact that I only had a PC with 433 mhz and 160 MB of ram, and had suggested I try Xubuntu. However, I haven't seemed to have much luck getting accessibility going on that. So my questions are these: (1) *Can* I get Ubuntu up and running on my system even if it does only have 160 MB of ram? (2) If Xubuntu would be a solution for an old PC like this one, how would I get it accessible? and (3) What *is* the best option for such a PC as I've described? I've been using Oralux as my main distro, but there's things that Oralux can't do that I'd need X to accomplish. Thanks, Terrence -- When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love. ___ AIM: terrencevane; Yahoo: terrencevak; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; icq: 467073979; LJ: terrencevane -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Need advice/Question on Current Release
It sounds like you need an alt disk. It's not the live disk but it's what used to be called the install disk until they got the install to work from the live disk. So now it's called an alt disk, or at least thats what I call it. It's good for installing on older systems. You should be able to download a copy on the edgy download page. Grrr... I can never remember urls. Beth Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, all, I tried the newest release, and have had little/no success with it. The install script doesn't run when I click on it and my computer freezes up. Also, running orca from console 1 told me it couldn't find the display or something like tat, and/or told me that watchdog detected something bad, and running it from within Gnome didn't produce *anything*. Someone over on the gnome-accessibility list, I think it was, suggested that some of my issues stemmed from the fact that I only had a PC with 433 mhz and 160 MB of ram, and had suggested I try Xubuntu. However, I haven't seemed to have much luck getting accessibility going on that. So my questions are these: (1) *Can* I get Ubuntu up and running on my system even if it does only have 160 MB of ram? (2) If Xubuntu would be a solution for an old PC like this one, how would I get it accessible? and (3) What *is* the best option for such a PC as I've described? I've been using Oralux as my main distro, but there's things that Oralux can't do that I'd need X to accomplish. Thanks, Terrence -- When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love. ___ AIM: terrencevane; Yahoo: terrencevak; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; icq: 467073979; LJ: terrencevane -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Need advice/Question on Current Release
Op donderdag 26-10-2006 om 22:11 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried the newest release, and have had little/no success with it. The install script doesn't run when I click on it and my computer freezes up. Also, running orca from console 1 told me it couldn't find the display or something like tat, and/or told me that watchdog detected something bad, and running it from within Gnome didn't produce *anything*. Someone over on the gnome-accessibility list, I think it was, suggested that some of my issues stemmed from the fact that I only had a PC with 433 mhz and 160 MB of ram, and had suggested I try Xubuntu. However, I haven't seemed to have much luck getting accessibility going on that. So my questions are these: (1) *Can* I get Ubuntu up and running on my system even if it does only have 160 MB of ram? (2) If Xubuntu would be a solution for an old PC like this one, how would I get it accessible? and (3) What *is* the best option for such a PC as I've described? I've been using Oralux as my main distro, but there's things that Oralux can't do that I'd need X to accomplish. Like Beth suggested, it should be possible to install Ubuntu using the alternative install CD, but I don't know if the alternative installer is accessible, so you might need some help to do the installation. I have used Ubuntu with GNOME on a Pentium MMX 166MHz with 64 MiB RAM (it was really slow, but worked), but I don't know how much extra RAM is needed for the accessibility extras (speech synthesis etc.). -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
