resend Re: livetest32 test
Tom Fowle
wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm
Wed Dec 2 22:43:15 EST 2015
Tony,
Will try the new images, I may well have goofed something up after speakup
was killed, My wife barely khnows limux so may not have read something
critical.
Should have put the image on a CDRW, not a CDR, but they're cheap
More soon
Thanks
Tom Fowle
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:21:02AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
> On 12/1/2015 6:28 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> >Attempted to run my serial port alva display, brltty responded to command
> >but display did not come up. It works in Debian.
>
> Yes, that's a Ubuntu problem which should now be fixed. It doesn't
> start automatically in Ubuntu by default.
>
> >
> >Killed speakup etc. with the commands you gave me.
> >did
> >modprobe speakup_dtlk
> >
> >could not find speakup_dtlk
> >
>
> Hmm, it finds speakup_dtlk fine here. It says it's version 2.10 and
> supports the Doubletalk PC.
>
> >Should that have been
> >modprobe speakup.dtlk instead of "line" dtlk
>
> No, it's definitely speakup_dtlk.
>
> >
> >Just for interest? machine is an Asis P2B 1GHz celeron with 780MB ram (all
> >it will take)
>
> I tested it with 1 GB of memory, so this is helpful. I would expect
> it not to be very responsive. The CD image uploading now will
> hopefully help.
>
> >Response on the livetest cd is pretty sluggish, but not unexpected, it's that
> >way running orca/gnome from Debian wheezy
> >
> >We have at least one other older box on which we can try the livetest just
> >to see if it works, but that other box has no isa slots so no go for
> >doubletalk.
> >Happy to try if simply reporting another successfull livetest boot
>
> Yes, the more testing it gets, the better. I don't think it's going
> to run on a machine with less memory, but it's worth a try. New CD
> images are uploading which should address the Braille display
> problem. I don't know why it can't find speakup_dtlk since it's
> definitely shipped in the kernel.
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