testing grml

[John G. Heim]

I never found a script that worked. I downloaded a couple and they messed up 
my machine worse than doing without. Looking at the code, I can't figure out 
what they are trying to do. Its not that I don't understand the code, I 
don't get what its trying to do.  So I may write one myself that makes more 
sense to me.

Anyway, I had to learn about amixer but its not as intimidating as it seems 
at first. I figured out that on all the machines I've tried grml on so far, 
you get at least some sound by typing in three amixer commands:

amixer set Master unmute
amixer set Front unmute
amixer set PCM unmute

Then you have to type in two more commands to get software speech:

modprobe speakup_soft
espeakup

So its not exactly the easiest thing in the world to get software speech on 
the latest grml release candidate. But there's a fix for the muted sound 
card in the pipeline and I think it will be included in the next official 
release. I think I am going to ask them to put speakup_soft in /etc/modules 
so all you will have to do to get speech is type 'espeakup' after booting is 
finished.

I have been a little reluctant to push them too hard because I don't want to 
seem ungrateful. They actually have been great. They added the brltty and 
espeakup packages and they added beeps at startup and when the boot is done. 
They enabled the serial console so you can get boot messages via a terminal 
emulator. And, of course, the speakup modules are included.

I usually keep a vinux CD around but most of the time, when I need to boot 
off a CD I use grml. I'm just more comfortable with it. But the main reason 
I think its important to retain accessibility in grml is that if for some 
reason, vinux would go away, we'd still have a live CD we could use.

From: "Albert Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 11:10 AM
Subject: RE: testing grml


> John, did you ever get an answer to your question about unmuting the sound
> card?  I'd need it too.
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of John Heim
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:35 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: testing grml
>
> All,
>
> First of all, grml has a new release candidate out. They could use people 
> to
> test accessibility. Point a vrowser to http://bit.ly/sESUaa
>
>
> Second, is there a command to unmute the sound card? I mean, I know you 
> can
> do that with a mixer but I need a command to do it because if there is no
> sound, I can't run the mixer.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure that software speech is working on this latest grml 
> release
> but I can't confirm it because I can't get sound to work. And I think 
> that's
>
> because the sound card is muted.
>
>
>
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