Problems with installing ubuntu

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
Thanks for that information, got brltty working (using second method). It 
seems like orca isn't behaving as I would expect though, sometimes it never 
seems to respond (don't know if something is happening in gnome, suspect 
that something might as the CD sometimes spins up when I try some stuff). 
This is things like reading applications, sometimes its own control panel, 
and sometimes anything.

Also I found out why it wasn't speaking. While I was in text mode, I loaded 
alsamixer, everything was muted. I raised the volume and orca now speaks 
(when it responds). I doubt it is system specs as I have 2.4GHz pentium4 and 
1.5 GB ram. Could there be a problem with the CD drive I am using, it is a 
slower (32x read I think) CDRW, but I use this one as the other I have in 
the machine is a cheap one that doesn't always work properly although faster 
(when I installed slackware, and it searched for the CD using the cheap 
drive, it required the disk to be ejected and re-inserted before it was 
recognised).

Any possible solution using orca, or is there a text install where I can use 
brltty and/or speakup?

Its a shame that it doesn't quite work straight of the box on all systems, 
just a good job I tried it with my laptop first and had it just working, or 
I probably would have just passed on it.

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with installing ubuntu


> Hi,
> i downloaded the alternate version and with it, you can install with
> brailesupport.
> When booting press "f6" and type:
> "install brltty=cb,ttyS0,de"
> which worked for my combibraile and german layout.
>
> Please be aware, that on the installed Partition brltty does not start
> automatically and you have to make the changes yourself in the 
> brltty.conf.
>
> another method to check on the live-cd:
> press ctrl+alt+f1"
> type sudo brltty -b cb -d ttyS0 -t de
> (the commands for my Brailedisplay) and the Braildisplay will work
> then orca -t
> -which is a textversion to setup Orca, with Speech and braile
>
> good success
> Lutz
>