Questions on ArchLinux for the blind

Cleverson Casarin Uliana clever92000 at yahoo.com.br
Sun Mar 21 16:11:32 EDT 2010


Chris Brannon writes:
> I'll let someone else answer this one, because I don't really use Gnome
> on Arch.  Yes, it's possible to set it up eyes-free.
> I'd probably do that after booting into the freshly-installed OS.
>
OK, thanks. So I'll wait for further instructions and maybe I try it by 
myself after installing the fresh system.

Thank you for the aditional kind answers below as well. Cheers.

>> My native language is Brazilian Portuguese, so I will
>> have to set my localization options and change the ESpeak voice after
>> rebooting into the installed system, right?
>
> You can change the espeakup voice by editing /etc/conf.d/espeakup.
> Just edit the version on the installed partition before you reboot.
> I don't expect that you'll have any problems with setting your locale.
>
>> 3. My machine has a Pentium D dual core processor, with 1 GB RAM. Is it
>> worth installing the 64 bits version, since I don't have much memory?
>
> Honestly, I haven't even published a link to the 64-bit image, yet.
> It's really just for testing purposes, if you're feeling brave.
> If you ask me privately for the link, I'll gladly give it to you.
> The next set of "stable" images will include a 64-bit version.
>
> Good luck,
> -- Chris
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