Re: debian images to include non-free firmwares?

2022-08-27 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I am for this as an normal user I should not have to wonder if the firmware for my hardware is free or not and I just want a system that works with all of my hardware regardless of if it is free or not.  Nick Gawronski On 8/27/2022 9:40 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, An on-going vote

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-02 Thread Nick Gawronski
known to the user that they don't have to wait until the entire wiping process is completed if they don't want to.  Nick Gawronski On 5/2/2022 7:39 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Am 2. Mai 2022 13:58:54 MESZ schrieb Samuel Thibault : Holger Wansing, le lun. 02 mai 2022 13:52:36 +0200, a

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-01 Thread Nick Gawronski
enter work as control and c does not do the canceling operation like it should and I had to wait until the entire disk was wiped?  Nick Gawronski On 5/1/2022 5:54 AM, Philip Hands wrote: Nick Gawronski writes: Hi, I had to reinstall debian and like to encrypt my installations. Regardless of

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-04-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
be looked at for a future release? Nick Gawronski On 11/17/2021 3:34 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: john doe, le mer. 17 nov. 2021 21:58:00 +0100, a ecrit: Unless I'm missing something, one could preseed this question as kernel boot parameter: # When disk encryption is enabled, skip wipin

Re: Improved choice selection in speech-enabled Debian installer

2022-04-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
debian-installer git repository what option do we pass to make to build this installer and is there an option to include any non-free firmware into the iso image for those of us who need it and should the mini.iso image when booted automatically start talking after enter is pressed? Nick

Re: building the android open source project on debian with accessibility tools

2022-03-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I managed to get script running by running it before using the source command and have attached the txt.gz file to this message so someone can look at it and let me know what packages are not installed or setup properly.  Nick Gawronski On 3/29/2022 10:59 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello

building the android open source project on debian with accessibility tools

2022-03-28 Thread Nick Gawronski
can look at them and let me know what is going on and how to fix them? Nick Gawronski

Re: Crypted LVM and beep tones

2022-03-11 Thread Nick Gawronski
luks slot I would not rather have to do this as I am not sure if there is a timeout when that prompt appears after booting.  It would be nice to have speech during that process or if a Braille display was connected Braille support or better yet both.  Nick Gawronski On 3/11/2022 2:45 PM, Didier

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-28 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Yes that fix allowed me to cat the entire perl INSTALL file and hear it from beginning to end.  Is this fix possible to add to the normal upstream version?  Nick Gawronski On 2/28/2022 6:42 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski, le lun. 28 févr. 2022 14:26:13 -0600, a ecrit

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-28 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Yes it always stops at that section talking about dynamic loading but if I use less or more I am able to read past that portion of the file.  I just tried it again and yes I keep getting the same results.  Nick Gawronski On 2/28/2022 12:36 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-27 Thread Nick Gawronski
INSTALL and pressed control C after searching for the dynamic loading I got line number 522 and it said it was at %19.  Is this anymore helpful?  Nick Gawronski On 2/27/2022 4:52 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski wrote: In the Bullseye packages of espeakup and espeak-ng with the

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-27 Thread Nick Gawronski
end with no stopping part of the way down the file and having to go to using more or less because the catting option does not work?  Nick Gawronski On 2/13/2022 4:59 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le dim. 13 févr. 2022 23:54:59 +0100, a ecrit: Nick Gawronski, le dim. 13 févr

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-13 Thread Nick Gawronski
upgrading those is safe like some libraries?  Is there a way that these fixes can be put into the next point release of stable or should I just upgrade to testing? Nick Gawronski On 2/13/2022 3:42 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote: On Feb 12, 2022, at 7:58 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le sam

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-13 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Yes I am using the english voices and yes after the speech stops prematurely like in the middle of a passage of text and I wish to review the screen I find that I have to press read previous or next line a lot of times with no speech before speech returns.  Nick Gawronski On 2/12/2022 6

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
causes the speech to delay when the building process is going on and sometimes stops all together.  Nick Gawronski On 2/12/2022 10:19 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski, le jeu. 10 févr. 2022 23:49:45 -0600, a ecrit: Hi, Yes it is both choppy speech and speakup reviewing commands

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-11 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, In the service section there are lots of lines including an exec line that points to the espeakup binary.  Do I add the nice value to that same line or somewhere else?  I just don't want to lose speech totally if I put the nice portion in the wrong place. Nick Gawronski On 2/11/2022

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-10 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Yes it is both choppy speech and speakup reviewing commands being very slow to respond and yes I get the freezing of speech if lots of text is sent to the espeakup process like when catting a long document.  Where in the service do I need to add the nice value?  Nick Gawronski On 2/10

changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-10 Thread Nick Gawronski
the highest if possible to help out with this issue?  Yes I could always tell the building process to not use as many jobs but this slows down the building process.  Nick Gawronski

Re: method for booting the talking network installation with non-free firmware from the hard drive using grub

2021-08-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
drives so a discless installation and repair method from scratch would be a useful thing to build into the debian-installer or have an option in the menu to build such a partition or boot entry?  Nick Gawronski On 8/30/2021 4:41 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le lun. 30 août 2021 16:27

Re: method for booting the talking network installation with non-free firmware from the hard drive using grub

2021-08-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
you type in a label to launch it or would I need to remember where it is in the menu and do the menus wrap around or can you enter in the number of the item to boot?  Nick Gawronski On 8/30/2021 3:33 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le lun. 30 août 2021 07:22:01 -0500, a ecrit: What

Re: method for booting the talking network installation with non-free firmware from the hard drive using grub

2021-08-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
ns on internally running portions of the installer like what I am trying to do with starting the GTK talking version of the installer.  Nick Gawronski On 8/30/2021 1:46 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski: There is no way to extract the GTK initial ramdisk image gzip file from the iso

Re: method for booting the talking network installation with non-free firmware from the hard drive using grub

2021-08-29 Thread Nick Gawronski
I could boot the iso image to do any fixes or a reinstallation on the main partition if needed.  Nick Gawronski On 8/29/2021 11:19 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski wrote: one of my other partitions on my hard drive contain the Debian network installation with the non-free

method for booting the talking network installation with non-free firmware from the hard drive using grub

2021-08-29 Thread Nick Gawronski
does when booting from a CD with the iso image burned to it? I tried to follow the Debian installation guide but as it did not talk about the firmware or the talking portion I was not sure how to do this. Is this even possible? Nick Gawronski

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-05-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I also tested that DVD iso file and got an accessible console and desktop.  I added the web server and ssh server options to the already selected options but was just wondering if I selected gnome does speech also get enabled and what if you select both gnome and mate?  Nick Gawronski On

Re: Existence of accessibility standards??????????

2021-04-22 Thread Nick Gawronski
platform and browser also is very helpful.  Making sure images have alt texts in their html tag and elements like forms have text labels or if they are image labels that alt texts exist.  Nick Gawronski On 4/22/2021 5:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/21/2021 04:48 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote

issue with configuring a debian installation with debconf set to low priority both at the beginning and after the base system is installed

2021-04-06 Thread Nick Gawronski
it could be looked into and get fixed?  Nick Gawronski

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-06 Thread Nick Gawronski
have fixed the orca volume settings?  Nick Gawronski On 4/4/2021 3:54 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le dim. 04 avril 2021 15:41:51 -0500, a ecrit: Hi, With the mini iso file you had me test what build target did you use once the latest espeakup udeb was in the repository make

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-04 Thread Nick Gawronski
requires those drivers to work?  Nick Gawronski On 4/4/2021 6:27 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le dim. 04 avril 2021 06:10:23 -0500, a ecrit: One thing that was not carried across is during the installation for testing I did set the volume using the speakup shortcut keys to 9 and found

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-04 Thread Nick Gawronski
to fix this issue how do I go about this?  Could the default boot target on a custom image be changed to automatically or after about 4 seconds start the talking version of the installer?  Nick Gawronski On 4/4/2021 3:53 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le sam. 03 avril 2021 22:38

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
debian-installer source and is there a way to build just an image that talks automatically when it is booted?  Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2021 8:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le dim. 04 avril 2021 02:42:54 +0200, a ecrit: Mmm. Possibly we could use amixer and write that to some

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
have their own volume controls so you can have different volume settings for speech and music.  Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2021 5:46 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le sam. 03 avril 2021 17:42:48 -0500, a ecrit: So you are saying that when espeakup controls the speech alsa mixers can not be

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
of the installation and just set that value for the installed system somehow?  If orca was an option for the installer then could the same not be done for pulseaudio?  Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2021 6:08 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le sam. 03 avril 2021 17:54:32 -0500, a ecrit: Are

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, For me once sound is working yes I have no problem with that.  Are you asking if there should be more numbers between 0 and 9 as I am ok with the current setup?  Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2021 5:48 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le dim. 04 avril 2021 00:46:44 +0200, a ecrit: if

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
will raise the volume to the maximum setting for that volume that I set in alsamixer or amixer?  Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2021 4:43 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le sam. 03 avril 2021 16:39:50 -0500, a ecrit: if the volume by default is set very low then the speakup shortcuts have n

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
until I raised the alsa volume and with orca installed I had to use that long command to raise the pulseaudio volume then things worked just fine.  Volume should be at an acceptable level and not down so low that no one can hear it.  Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2021 4:30 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
installed system.  Why not just copy the installation volume settings over to the installed system as this is what users would think would happen? Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2021 4:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: john doe, le dim. 28 mars 2021 09:07:41 +0200, a ecrit: It is always easier to lower down

Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

2021-03-27 Thread Nick Gawronski
was as the PCM when I raised it to %100 the espeakup volume at it's default was very low still.  Nick Gawronski On 3/27/2021 1:53 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski, le mer. 24 mars 2021 20:57:57 -0500, a ecrit: Hi, Yes now that both volumes are at %100 the speakup v

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-24 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Yes now that both volumes are at %100 the speakup volume controls work as normal.  Should not the master and PCM be set to %100 by default after a new installation?  Nick Gawronski On 3/24/2021 7:14 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le mer. 24 mars 2021 19:06:26 -0500, a ecrit

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-24 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Setting it to %100 worked but the volume is still lower on the system then on the system with the full desktop installation. Why is this as using the speakup volume keys did not make any change when it was set low?  Nick Gawronski On 3/24/2021 5:56 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-24 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Here is that output.  I was unable to ssh into the system even after selecting it and the web server and the standard system utilities with no desktop.  I got the boot beep then no speech but the same beeps from the pc speaker when using the speakup review commands.  Nick Gawronski

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-23 Thread Nick Gawronski
environment.  Nick Gawronski On 3/23/2021 7:40 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le mar. 23 mars 2021 19:35:16 -0500, a ecrit: Hi, That worked orca and espeakup are now talking normally. Ok, good. Is there a way to find out why this was setup on my newly installed virtual machine

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-23 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, That worked orca and espeakup are now talking normally.  Is there a way to find out why this was setup on my newly installed virtual machine?  Even without a desktop installed as I did a test virtual machine with no desktop I also get no espeakup.  Nick Gawronski On 3/23/2021 6:52 PM

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-23 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Here is that output.  Nick Gawronski pulseaudio_ps_do lightdm  900  3.3  0.3 893624 26400 ?    S/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal nick    1044  0.0  0.1 161740  9348 ?    Ssl  18:23   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal lightdm

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Here is that output and this system has the desktop environment plus the ssh server.  Nick Gawronski > pulseaudio_ps_do lightdm  901  2.2  0.3 893624 26276 ?    S/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal nick    1383  0.0  0.1 161740  9

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Here is that output.  Nick Gawronski Script started on 2021-03-21 15:56:41-05:00 [TERM="xterm-256color" TTY="/dev/pts/0" COLUMNS="120" LINES="30"] [?2004hroot@debian641:~# ps axf [?2004l     PID TTY  STAT   TIME COMMAND   2 ?    S

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
e the speech is lost but the installer is still running but if I specify what sound device to use from my usage the speech is not lost.  Nick Gawronski On 3/21/2021 3:14 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le dim. 21 mars 2021 15:07:41 -0500, a ecrit: pulseaudio is running Pulseaudio is ru

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
.  The espeakup process is also running but again no sound.  Nick Gawronski On 3/21/2021 1:55 PM, john doe wrote: On 3/21/2021 7:50 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, le dim. 21 mars 2021 13:45:37 -0500, a ecrit: What else can I try to see if the sound is working are samples provided to

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
provided to test with?  Nick Gawronski On 3/21/2021 1:38 PM, john doe wrote: On 3/21/2021 7:02 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.2.4-1 Hello, A user reports that although he has sound during installation (using speech synthesis), there is no sound at reboot into the

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-17 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Here is that file.  Nick Gawronski # To choose the default voice of the espeakup daemon, define VOICE here. # See /usr/lib/*/espeak-data/lang/ for a list of possible voices. VOICE=en # To choose audio output on another sound card, uncomment this and set as # appropriate (either a card

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-17 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Here is that output.  Nick Gawronski Script started on 2021-03-17 19:32:18-05:00 [TERM="xterm-256color" TTY="/dev/pts/0" COLUMNS="120" LINES="30"] [?2004hroot@debian641:~# amixer -c 0 scontents [?2004l Simple mixer control 'Master'

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-16 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Here is all of those commands that had output the first sound card as I only had one in the virtual machine.  Based on this what can you tell about this virtual machine as I am able to ssh into it?  Nick Gawronski Script started on 2021-03-16 21:26:28-05:00 [TERM="xterm-256color&

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-16 Thread Nick Gawronski
into the guest with the networking in vmware player set to nat?  When I hit backspace in the virtual machine logd in as root or a normal user I do get the pc speaker beeps.  If I can login as root on the virtual machine what command can I use to unmute the sound card?  Nick Gawronski On 3/16

software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-16 Thread Nick Gawronski
works with the stable network installer.  I used the non-free image just so if vmware player needed anything it would have it and the normal iso image does the same thing.  Nick Gawronski

Re: building a custon talking debian installation image with build essential and other packages on the disc as well as the mate accessible desktop

2020-04-27 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I agree as most hardware now requires firmware to use. Is there a document on how to remaster and add packages to the disc either for download or as normal debs that are on the disc? Nick Gawronski On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:38:15 -0400 From

building a custon talking debian installation image with build essential and other packages on the disc as well as the mate accessible desktop

2020-04-24 Thread Nick Gawronski
and a highor volume level then normal for systems where you would like speech to be not so soft during the installation process? Nick Gawronski

Re: Orca

2020-04-14 Thread Nick Gawronski
operating system which I do not delete or reformat. How using the console which works well with speakup or once in the desktop can I setup orca to start up? Nick Gawronski On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Constantine Ryzhikov wrote: Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:36:52 +0300 From: Constantine Ryzhikov To: debian

getting or creating single html or text files of the installation or reference guides or the FAQ for reading on talking book players for the blind community

2020-04-08 Thread Nick Gawronski
finding these manuals and guides in one large file be possible? Building them with tools would be nice but finding the raw files and what steps I need to take would help. Nick Gawronski

Re: Web accessibility standards/recommendations?

2019-09-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Two sites I often tell developers of web sites about are http://w3.org/WAI and http://www.webaim.org and I think it is great that you care about accessibility as we need more sited people who understand the important needs of web page accessibility. Nick Gawronski On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Jude

Re: Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

2019-04-14 Thread Nick Gawronski
it tries to reconfigure the package and I posted this output sometime ago but never heard back. What should I do to get it working in Buster? Nick Gawronski I found that file exactly as you indicated and added /bin. Here it is: [Unit] Description=Software speech output for Speakup

Re: Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

2019-04-09 Thread Nick Gawronski
error. Nick Gawronski Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-14) ... ● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-04-09 13:12:53 CDT

Re: Bug report: Buster: Debian Installer doesn't speak

2019-04-07 Thread Nick Gawronski
what braille display are you using?  Nick Gawronski On 4/7/2019 4:56 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: Hi, I tried running both the 2019-04-07 (today) daily snapshot and the Alpha5 release of the Buster netinst, but both came up with no speech. Download URLs: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily

Re: no speech in buster alpha 5 amd64 iso image with a Realtek internal sound board

2019-03-07 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I use http://www.aira.io and will look into this would it be best with the current alpha 5 or wait until the next image is released?  I use Android as it is more open.  Nick Gawronski On 3/7/2019 3:27 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: If Nick has an iPhone, the be my eyes app can provide that

Re: no speech in buster alpha 5 amd64 iso image with a Realtek internal sound board

2019-03-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
method to just press s and enter on a bios based system and speech should just start if there is just one sound card in the computer?  Nick Gawronski On 3/3/2019 1:51 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski, le sam. 02 mars 2019 23:07:10 -0600, a ecrit: What do I need to do to get

no speech in buster alpha 5 amd64 iso image with a Realtek internal sound board

2019-03-02 Thread Nick Gawronski
need to do to get this installation working again as this system is using the non-free firmware image as the network cards require it? Nick Gawronski snd_hda_codec_hdmi 49152 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek90112 1 snd_hda_codec_generic69632 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel

Re: Debian live stable images with just console and software speech using espeakup

2017-12-23 Thread Nick Gawronski
the debs for what I needed but I would rather have a basic console live disc that loads into ram when it boots so I can remove the disc or USB stick for faster usage in the live system. Nick Gawronski On Sat, December 23, 2017 1:19 pm, ben wrote: > Hello1 > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 12:10:22PM

Debian live stable images with just console and software speech using espeakup

2017-12-23 Thread Nick Gawronski
x27;t need. Could this be looked into for times where a minimal live disc is needed? Nick Gawronski

getting flite working on debian testing

2017-05-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
but why not use this method rather then espeakup to give users more choices for synthesizers? Nick Gawronski

Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-05-09 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, My current system is a bios based system just so I know do the same images like iso images work on both bios and the newer method or are there different images for both systems? Nick Gawronski On 5/9/2017 2:17 AM, adrian15 adrian15 wrote: Well, I don't care too much abou

Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-05-04 Thread Nick Gawronski
early as possible would be nice so the blind user knows that something is going on. Nick Gawronski On 5/4/2017 7:01 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, on lun. 01 mai 2017 14:35:39 -0500, wrote: Hi, Why not have the shortcuts be the same for both console and graphical discs to make

Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-05-01 Thread Nick Gawronski
wishes to burn the data to the CD or DVD they can't do this if the disc is still active in the drive. Nick Gawronski On 5/1/2017 10:08 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, on lun. 01 mai 2017 09:20:34 -0500, wrote: Hi, What about s for the installation with speech and l for the live

Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-05-01 Thread Nick Gawronski
live system and i for the installation might be best as it is a live system. Are there already boot options for loading the entire disc into ram so the disc could be removed as if not these should be added for both the live disc and installer targets with speech for speed and performance? Nick Gawr

Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-04-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
stallation. Nick Gawronski On 4/30/2017 5:43 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Le 30/04/2017 à 02:14, Nick Gawronski a écrit : Hi, I am trying to make the live debian images with the installer accessible so blind users can put one of the live discs into their drives and test out debian either cons

accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-04-29 Thread Nick Gawronski
ou to add espeakup and or orca to the live images as some users don't need or want a desktop just a command line but want to be able to install the live disc on their system if they like what it does for them? Nick Gawronski

Re: creating a customized debian-installer testing CD with non-free firmware that starts talking on boot and is at low priority

2017-04-18 Thread Nick Gawronski
disc and the only things it would need to download were other packages selected during the installation and any updates to either the installer or security updates. Nick Gawronski On 4/17/2017 2:57 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski, on lun. 17 avril 2017 01:16:56 -0500,

creating a customized debian-installer testing CD with non-free firmware that starts talking on boot and is at low priority

2017-04-16 Thread Nick Gawronski
however would like to build my custom talking installation disc if possible what steps should I start out with? Nick Gawronski

Re: getting the cd1 installer with nonfree firmware

2017-04-14 Thread Nick Gawronski
installed. I usually run the installer with debconf priority set to low and choose the contrib and non-free repositories during the package installation as this way if updates are provided for the firmware they will be downloaded like other updates. Nick Gawronski On 4/14/2017 7:53 PM, Amir

Re: speech-enabled expert/rescue/autoinstall keyboard shortcuts

2017-03-22 Thread Nick Gawronski
speech or can one not just type in the shortcut then add speakup.synth=soft to start software speech as I tried that once but got nowhere? Nick Gawronski automated install. It's really a matter of adding the menu entry: just copy/paste the existing expert/rescue/automated entries, and a

Re: espeakup will not readvery long documents when using programs like cat

2017-03-07 Thread Nick Gawronski
reading the document and this happens for every single long document I have read using this method. How else can I help in tracking down this issue as I am on an amd64 system and am using the espeakup defaults? Nick Gawronski On 2/28/2017 5:11 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski

espeakup will not readvery long documents when using programs like cat

2017-02-15 Thread Nick Gawronski
the developers to track down what this issue is and fix it? Nick Gawronski

Re: orca on debian stretch testing

2017-01-05 Thread Nick Gawronski
documentation on how to setup my wireless network connection or for how to add more then one network to the system as just copying the interfaces file from a working installer to the system did not work? Nick Gawronski On 12/7/2016 7:11 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: In addition to the problem I have with

Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup

2016-12-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
s was working during the installation it should be working after the installation and if they only have one computer and they are installing only Debian it is kind of tricky to research on line when internet is not working and no document is on the system to help out the new user? Nick Gawr

Re: orca on debian stretch testing

2016-12-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I just downloaded the unofficial disc image that included the firmware for the amd64 system and it worked just fine. Nick Gawronski On 12/12/2016 12:00 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Is that information easily accessible in text on the iso somewhere? When I did my install, I had the binary for

Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup

2016-12-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Is this also the reason when I used the week build of November 28th, 2016 and did not install any desktop no wireless network was setup? I think there should be an option to ask the user about this issue as I myself would be ok for this to be done on my personal laptop? Nick Gawronski

Re: orca on debian stretch testing

2016-12-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
installation. I used the image that included the non-free firmware as both my network cards require firmware. What installation image did you use to install with? Nick Gawronski On 12/7/2016 7:11 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: In addition to the problem I have with panels accessibility, the orca on

Re: debian stretch testing findings

2016-11-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
speakup. Nick Gawronski On 11/30/2016 11:13 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: I was able to install debian-stretch-testing using the 3.5MM jack standard speaker set connected to my computer and speakup came up talking post-install. I put mate on that installation too and failed to get a wifi network

major espeakup not speaking in latest testing installation

2016-09-09 Thread Nick Gawronski
killing the process espeakup and running it manually. It is a hit and miss issue. Is anyone else having this issue on a fresh testing installation and if so how can I fix it? Nick Gawronski

method for changing wireless networks in Debian Stretch with mate installed from the command line

2016-05-26 Thread Nick Gawronski
would be nice. The /etc/wpa_supplicant directory has no configuration file with the network information in it. Nick Gawronski

best debian live disc to use for accessibility

2016-05-22 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I was trying to find what is the best Debian live disc to use that has accessibility either speakup or orca or both but I would rather have speakup for console access? Do any of the discs have a timeout at the boot prompt other then the beep? Nick Gawronski

Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

2016-05-22 Thread Nick Gawronski
issues with running both orca and espeakup at the same time? Nick Gawronski On 5/22/2016 5:13 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Cyril Brulebois, on Sat 21 May 2016 23:13:17 +0200, wrote: * brltty: - Install MATE desktop by default when brltty is used in d-i. * espeakup: - Install

Re: debian-installer issues with no wireless network connection after a text based Jessie installation

2016-05-20 Thread Nick Gawronski
to the target system I don't understand why this is not done or a question is added to the installer to ask the user about this? Nick Gawronski On 5/20/2016 1:12 PM, Brian Potkin wrote: On Fri 20 May 2016 at 01:54:02 -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote: prompts but then once the Debian s

Re: debian-installer issues with no wireless network connection after a text based Jessie installation

2016-05-20 Thread Nick Gawronski
if I install using the network console speech will not be turned on after the installation even if it is used to start the network console? Nick Gawronski On 5/20/2016 5:41 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Windows 10 was probably why you didn't get speech post-install. Starting debian with the s

Re: debian-installer issues with no wireless network connection after a text based Jessie installation

2016-05-19 Thread Nick Gawronski
not copy over the wireless networking settings from the installer to the target system when doing a text only install with speech? Nick Gawronski On 5/20/2016 1:07 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: Dear Nick On 05/20/2016 06:52 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, I am using the net installer of Jessie version

debian-installer issues with no wireless network connection after a text based Jessie installation

2016-05-19 Thread Nick Gawronski
twork as well as my wired network using DHCP so they both will work when my text based system boots? Nick Gawronski

Re: Does anybody really use the dots package?

2016-04-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I say for now we leave it in debian as now that you brought it to our attention it sounds like an interesting package and someone might want to start up on the package again. If it is removed and someone later wishes to work on it again can it be added again? Nick Gawronski On 4/30/2016

Re: OCR

2016-04-27 Thread Nick Gawronski
tools already exist for the console to do the OCR I would like to know about them. Nick Gawronski On 4/27/2016 1:01 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, After test of various OCR, I feel that Tesseract, the most advanced OCR engine on Linux, hasn't noawadays all ways to be as performa

Re: process for getting festival working with speech-dispatcher and speechd-up

2016-04-05 Thread Nick Gawronski
speech on the console. I have speech-dispatcher set to yes to start system wide. What is the proper process to get both orca and espeakup or speechd-up working on the same system? Nick Gawronski On 4/3/2016 5:19 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, Well after a fresh installation of debian on both

Re: process for getting festival working with speech-dispatcher and speechd-up

2016-04-03 Thread Nick Gawronski
want your system setup as why would someone only want speech working in one mode? Nick Gawronski On 4/2/2016 12:09 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, In reading what documentation exists on the festival synthesizer it says that running a festival speech server is not very secure would using one of

Re: process for getting festival working with speech-dispatcher and speechd-up

2016-04-02 Thread Nick Gawronski
better in the debian-installer to include speech-dispatcher and speechd-up as I found the speech is quicker and it can speak a lot more items like things then espeakup. Nick Gawronski On 4/2/2016 1:42 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nick Gawronski, on Fri 01 Apr 2016 20:40:54 -0500, wrote: What

process for getting festival working with speech-dispatcher and speechd-up

2016-04-01 Thread Nick Gawronski
values. Nick Gawronski

getting speakup and orca included in the Debian live disc

2016-02-28 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I was wanting to test out the live disc but found that no accessibility support exists for it. What would it take to add a boot option to start espeakup or orca or both so we could use the live disc for testing or as a rescue system? Nick Gawronski

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