Re: old artic transport, some ideas.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I think the command set was a control-e followed by a character v for volume, r for rate, p for pitch. Then you had nine levels sample: control-er9 set the fastest rate. Could be wrong. On 5/25/2017 10:26 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:16:09PM

Re: old artic transport, some ideas.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Karen, Nope, it didn't put your address in here. Seems I had it one time when we were discussing another issue, but I don't now. Here's mine. southernprinc...@gmail.com Hth. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Everything happens after coffee! On Thu, 25 May 2017, Linux for blind

Re: old artic transport, some ideas.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:16:09PM AEST, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi Mark, > Santa has come early if you have an interest. > I have for you a copy of the documentation for the artic transport. Does that documentation happen to also contain the command set to talk to the

Re: old artic transport, some ideas.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Mark, Santa has come early if you have an interest. I have for you a copy of the documentation for the artic transport. Yes there is a way to set the clock. In any case, you may want to write me privately, but I do not know if I put my address in here if the post will be flagged. Let me

Re: living in the console.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
1. I use the tools in the cups-bsd package for printing. "lpr " 2. For music, I've ripped all of my CDs and I play them with mplayer or mpg321. 3. For documents, I create them in latex and convert them to pdf via pdflatex before sending them to others. On 05/25/2017 05:29 PM, Linux for

Re: living in the consolex

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
With the console screen reader I use, I find adding 2> /dev/null to the end of the command line does well to prevent junk text being read over the audio being played by the program. 2> (the numeral 2 followed by the greater than/right angle bracket) tells the terminal to redirect error messages

living in the console.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Mark Peveto here. Over the last couple days or so, I've considered becoming a totally command line linux user. I know there are those who've done it, but i simply have not known how. Now that I'm trafficing in hardware synths that don't work in the GUI, that desire has increased. How would I

Re: hardware synths.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Karen, I might be able to put you in touch with someone who's selling one if you'd like. I'll contact him and see if he's still got it. He was asking $85 for it. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Everything happens after coffee! On Thu, 25 May 2017, Linux for blind general

Re: hardware synths.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 05:33:47AM AEST, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > As I sit here working in the console using my dectalk express that I just > purchased, I find myself wishing it were possible to use it in the GUI as > well. Do you know where I may be able to get a hold of

hardware synths.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
As I sit here working in the console using my dectalk express that I just purchased, I find myself wishing it were possible to use it in the GUI as well. It's so much easier for me to hear than espeak. I wish someone would takte the time and write a module for speech-dispatcher so orca could

Re: deleting bookmarks in firefox

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thanks! It worked. Since I'd seen many if not all of my bookmarks just arrowing up and down after doing alt-f and finding the bookmarks menu, I didn't think I'd need the control-shift-o, but that made the difference. Al On 05/25/2017 03:05 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi

Re: deleting bookmars in firefox

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On my system, I just: alt+B to open Bookmarks menu. Arrow Keys to the bookmark to delete alt to open context menu arrow to the delete option or press d. You can also do ctrl+B to open bookmarks in the sidebar, arrow to the book mark to delete(using enter to expand/collapse folders as needed) and

Re: deleting bookmars in firefox

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Al! Shlomi Fish here. On Thu, 25 May 2017 14:31:04 -0400 Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Greetings! > > Does anybody know the keystrokes, if any, for deleting firefox > bookmarks? Neither firefox help nor Google searches have helped. > Somebody gave

deleting bookmars in firefox

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Greetings! Does anybody know the keystrokes, if any, for deleting firefox bookmarks? Neither firefox help nor Google searches have helped. Somebody gave me a series of keystrokes a few years ago, but I've lost that info. (I recall that it was more complicated to do the job than it should

Re: The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi. It's likely I should know the answer to this, but I don't and I makes it hard for me to know how to prioritize supporting your work. Would you mind giving a breakdown of the top five projects you tend to spend time working on? Linux accessibility for the blind is fairly broad and. --Sam

Re: The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Luke, May I ask if your funding platform is inclusive enough for command line Linux users to support you? Karen On Thu, 25 May 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Howdy Luke, you have won a new supporter ;). I hope others will help as well since a11y is an hardly needed

Re: The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Howdy Luke, you have won a new supporter ;). I hope others will help as well since a11y is an hardly needed sector and it would be awesome to see an fulltime developer here. i also place some news on linux-a11y.org https://linux-a11y.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0=5=23 cheers chrys

Re: cs46xx firmware bz2

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Modpro reports nothing if it success. You can also give command dmesg | tail witch usually gives some information about module loading results. -- mr. M01510 & guide Loadstone-GPS Lat: 62.38718, lon: 25.64672 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net B784D020 fp:0C1F6A76 DC9DDD58 33838B5D 0E769600 B7840D02

Re: cs46xx firmware bz2

2017-05-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Willem, It works! Thanks brazillions. I would never ever have figured that out. I found cs46xx in /usr/local/lib/firmware after you told me all this stuff. Maybe it went to the wrong place or something. modprobe -v snd-cs46xx reports nothing at all now. Is that what it's supposed to do? On