How do I get to learn Linux & SpeakUp? Re: How to use espeakup

[Peter Tesar]

Here are the steps I took to try Linux (on a live CD) and then attempt to 
install it.

I have Windows and JAWS on my first physical disk partitioned into c: and d: 
drives. I wanted to play it safe by putting Linux on a second physical disk. 
This second disk was just installed but it is not partitioned. I understood 
that the installing of Linux would perform the partitioning.

I listened to a few MP3 podcasts explaining how to install various 
distributions of Linux. However, since the recordings, Linux versions have 
changed and I know very little about Linux ORCA and Speakup.

I chose to start with Vinux. The Dr. Bongo's Vinux Development Blog site 
gives 30 steps. From the Vinux UK site I downloaded the ISO file and burned 
the live CD.

This Live CD originally worked. Four minutes after booting I heard “Welcome 
to ORCA”. Then I could tab three times to hear the help, preferences and 
quit buttons.

I focused on step 23 which explains How to install Vinux to a hard drive as 
a duel system.
It states that the 'Install Vinux to Hard Drive' launcher will allow you to 
partition your hard drive and install Vinux to it.

I thought that the five words in quotes should be typed in the console.
Step 13states: you have to press ctrl+alt+F1 from the running Gnome session 
or the GDM login screen. You can then use Speakup to input commands from the 
console

I pressed control+alt+f1 and then typed:
Install Vinux to Hard Drive (without the quotes).

This produced an error which I can’t remember exactly. I could use the ORCA 
say lines keys (7, 8 and 9) to review the screen. The ORCA voice is a 
challenge to understand.

Now When I boot to the live CD I hear “welcome to ORCA” and then nothing. 
Now tabbing no longer results in the buttons being announced.

Since ORCA started with the live CD I thought that it would guide me through 
the install to hard drive process. In retrospect, I think that there might 
be an application called a launcher.

It would be helpful to have a list of command keystrokes for Linux, ORCA and 
Speakup. I’m even wondering if the different Linux distributions have 
different keystrokes. E.g. are alt+F1, alt+f2 and alt+F3 used by all the 
Linuxes?

Where do I go from here?

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: How do I get to learn Linux & SpeakUp? Re: How to use espeakup


Peter Tesar, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 11:48:05 -0400, a écrit :
> All I have to work with is Windows XP and JAWS. I thought that it would be
> easier to chat with someone on your Reflector. The information sent me
> through this list service didn't help. Maybe I am doing something wrong or
> nobody is there to chat.
>
> Your web site http://linux-speakup.org/ is not helpful.

Then that's the place where things should be fixed.

> I would like to get started using Linux.

That's your question and that's what could be on the website if somebody
took the time to write the text.

> I haven't been successful with the distribution CD that I downloaded
> and burned.

Then it's probably a bug and in that case the mailing list is indeed
appropriate: please precisely describe what you have done, and what
result you got.

Samuel
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