grml

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Ned, I think some of what you want is in a message to this list on 24 February.  I'll insert the relevant part of it.  It helped me, once my speakers were connected correctly.

On the grml.org site, there's a wiki link, and from that an accessibility link.  I've generally found GRML documentation to be decent, although there sometimes seem to be gaps in it--gaps, at least, for somebody with my level of knowledge.

Hope this helps.

Al

Here's the message excerpt:

> Now, the question about the software speech.  GRML comes with eflite
> and flite.  It works with speakup, and here's how you do it.
>
> You might need some sighted assistance, the first time, but I don't
> think you will if you can hear the drive spin.
>
> first step: put the disk in and start the machine.  The drive will
> spin for a short time, then stop.
> Second step: When the drive finishes its first short spin, you need to
> enterthis:
> grml swspeak
> You need to be sure that you spell it right, or you will end up having
> to reboot in order to try over.
> third step: Listen for the sound to come up.  It will not be loud,
> because GRML only brings up the mixer setting for the alsa pcm device
> to 75%.  You will year the words:
> finished activating software speakup, just run swspeak when booting
> finished
> You will know that you are successfully into the speech interface when
> this happens.  fourth step: When the boot sequence is almost finished,
> you will hear the words:
>
> finished booting
>
> Now, enter swspeak and wait a while to see if you can hear the system
> come up talking.  You will need to do this:
> fifth step: enter this:
>
> aumix -w 100
>
> This will bring the sound all the way up.
>
> Now, if all went well, you should be ready to do something with it.
>



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Granic" <ngranic at cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: grml


> Hi all,
> 
> I checked and downloaded the grml from their site, but their documentation seems to be very unorganized and scattered all over the place.
> SO my q is how to boot the cd with a software synth if there is one, and how to switch to a desktop that is supported by a software screen reader?
> Or, at least, please point me to a good documentation place where all of these things are explained.
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
>                     Ned
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