Trying to get a Dell Enspiron Laptop to Talk

[Glenn Ervin]

The memory is actually pretty easy to change on a laptop.
On all of the laptops I have done, I only had to open a little cover on the 
back, with one or two screws, and you will find the memory module.  It 
usually tilts back, to about a 45 degree angle, and then you squeeze a 
couple of clips, one on each end of the module, and pull the chip out.
Be sure to feel the memory chip and find a way to identify which side is 
which, so you can put in the new module the same way.
HTH.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: Trying to get a Dell Enspiron Laptop to Talk


I don't know a lot about Ubuntu, but I've read that if you boot directly
to the installer instead of the live CD, it will take a while but it
will install and work fine with 256 MB of RAM.  You might need sighted
help, I'm not sure if the installer talks or not but it sounds like it
wouldn't in your case anyway.  If you don't mind giving it a try, I
would be interested to know if Orca works after the install without
booting into the live CD.  Also, on a machine here with the same amount
of memory, I always had to start Orca manually after it booted, even
though I had sighted help verify that I was in fact booting into the
mode where speech should come up automatically.  Once I manually started
Orca, it was very slow but it eventually came up.  I would definitely
not recommend running solely from the live CD because it's painfully
slow but just doing an install is supposed to work.

Martin McCormick wrote:
> I did try the ubuntu live CD with orca and it did find
> the sound card because you can hear the bongo drums but the 256
> megs of RAM are not sufficient to make it all go when booting
> from the live CD so I am hoping that a thinner live CD will be
> the answer.
>

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