Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks Sven, I was going to go for another package on the aur helpers list but kept getting error 404 when trying to connect to the web site so ended up with aurbuild. There may be better helpers available but I haven't checked into that yet.On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 0

Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-08 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 09.08.2010 01:33, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I found the aur link on the archlinux.org page but so far, pacman > isn't searching and accessing aur. Is this something that can be done > or is this better done with a different tool? > You should try installing an AUR helper, it will make your life

Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
I found the aur link on the archlinux.org page but so far, pacman isn't searching and accessing aur. Is this something that can be done or is this better done with a different tool? On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 08.08.2010 04:02, Jude DaShiell wrote: I install chris brann

Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
There were two accessibility developments that made this possible. First the speakup project http://www.linuxspeakup.org/ was the first. Then there was the espeakup project. The Linux Speakup project made Linux talk over a set ofhardware speech synthesizers. Then the espeakup project added

Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-08 Thread Chris Brannon
"David C. Rankin" writes: > Seriously, what tools are available that, I guess in some > sense, must speak the prompts so you know what's going on? These tools are known as screenreaders. They usually provide at least two functions: 1. Speak text as it appears, and 2. Allow the user to man

Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-08 Thread Ray Rashif
On 8 August 2010 11:05, David C. Rankin wrote: >        Seriously, what tools are available that, I guess in some sense, must > speak the prompts so you know what's going on? Just curious more than > anything else. Jude is not the only one, there are a lot more users like him running Linux. Chris

Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/07/2010 09:20 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Nice to see Arch being used by blind users. Good job, Chris. Wow! I commend you Jude for your shear moxie in getting a Linux distro up and running which is no small task for people with 20/20 vision. And the setup from Chris, I'll have to ch

Re: [arch-general] my intro

2010-08-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 08.08.2010 04:02, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I install chris brannon's talking arch linux a little earlier this > weekend. It was not the first Linux I've installed either. I use the > talking version since I can't see anything at all. For as small a > Linux as this is it's impressive. We need

[arch-general] my intro

2010-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
I install chris brannon's talking arch linux a little earlier this weekend. It was not the first Linux I've installed either. I use the talking version since I can't see anything at all. For as small a Linux as this is it's impressive. We need a foomatic-rip package though because my parall