Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
ote: In a seemingly endless trek to get both Windows 11 and debian Linux from a 3-year-old laptop I recently acquired, I had been trying to install debian Linux with orca on to a large-capacity thumb drive.  The debian bullseye installs were taking as long as twelve hours or so to do and when I final

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
As I understand it, pipewire hit maturity early enough to be included in Debian 12 aka Bookworm, but too late to replace pulse as the default, and one has to manually install pipewire and configure Debian to use it instead of pulse(though I suppose its possible the Expert mode of the Debian

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
t to read the Debian accessibility FAQ. >>> >>> This is the section on Speech support. >>> >>> https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Speech_Support >>> >>> ORCA will be on console 7 by default, and you can easily switch to a text >>> c

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
: In a seemingly endless trek to get both Windows 11 and debian Linux from a 3-year-old laptop I recently acquired, I had been trying to install debian Linux with orca on to a large-capacity thumb drive.  The debian bullseye installs were taking as long as twelve hours or so to do and when I finally

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Storm_Dragon ought to be the one to fix that deficiency since he wrote fenrir. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sun, 8 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Certainly those Debian instructions are interesting reading-and-guidance, but while there is 1 mention of Fenrir as a link to where Debian packages are, there seems no adequate description as there is for Speakup. Chime ___ Blinux-list mailing list

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
t; On 10/7/2023 1:54 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >> In a seemingly endless trek to get both Windows 11 and debian >> Linux from a 3-year-old laptop I recently acquired, I had been >> trying to install debian Linux with orca on to a large-capacity >> thumb dri

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
recently acquired, I had been trying to install debian Linux with orca on to a large-capacity thumb drive. The debian bullseye installs were taking as long as twelve hours or so to do and when I finally got one to finish, it was as slow as molasses in January or the same thing in July in the Southern

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On 10/7/23 19:54, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: So, my primary question is am I missing something about the command consoles? The mate terminal seems to be working but it's not quite the same as a command-line console. If you are on a laptop, the FN key might be playing a

Debian with Orca

2023-10-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
In a seemingly endless trek to get both Windows 11 and debian Linux from a 3-year-old laptop I recently acquired, I had been trying to install debian Linux with orca on to a large-capacity thumb drive. The debian bullseye installs were taking as long as twelve hours or so to do and when I finally