Debian upgrade to Jessie

[Rob]

I never did get Orca working with a window manager like lightm, after 
installing it from an already installed system. What I had to do was do a 
fresh install of debian. I used blrtty, which allowed me to have 
accessibility in the desktop later. I got speech in the login screen, after 
the fresh install, but I don't know how that was done, so that I can 
duplicate the steps without having to do a brand new install on my other 
linux box.
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From: "Techswing33" <techswing33 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: Debian upgrade to Jessie


> Hello,
>
> I've done a fresh Jessie install. That went fine with speech, I've got
> a console distro going that now I'd like to add the mate desktop to
> and set it up so I can graphically log in. If anyone has this working
> I'd appreciate some tips as I've been over the mate wiki which doesn't
> seem to be working.
>
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
>
> On 5/18/15, Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:
>> What kernel are you running?  I had no problems upgrading to Jessie on a
>> couple of servers here, but unless something changed recently, kernels 
>> after
>> 2.6.32 don't seem to work with hardware speech.  Of course you aren't 
>> using
>> a serial synth, so maybe it'll be fine for you.  The upgrade went fairly
>> smooth for the most part and I would recommend upgrading.  Be aware that 
>> the
>> default init is now systemd which has a lot of dependencies, so if you 
>> want
>> to stay with sysvinit or upstart, keep that in mind.  One server is only
>> accessed with ssh, so it has no speech on it at all.  The other is my
>> regular desktop machine, but I kept my 2.6.32 kernel due to the lack of
>> serial synth support in newer kernels.  I didn't want to upgrade udev, 
>> dbus,
>> etc, so I kept sysvinit on my desktop, but the remote server got a new
>> Jessie install with systemd and it seems fine.  I did upgrade from Wheezy 
>> to
>> testing, but due to unrelated circumstances, it got a fresh install, 
>> however
>> that had nothing to do with Jessie or any Debian problems.  Good luck and
>> let us know how it goes.
>>
>> On 5/17/2015 7:26 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
>>> finally realized Debian 8.0 Jessie is released.
>>> I see nothing in a quick perusal of the release notes effecting
>>> accessibility,
>>> or anything else i care about, but-----
>>>
>>> Using an old 1.3 gig Asus P2b with doubletalk PC internal.
>>>
>>> Are there any risks in just doing a straight upgrade from currently
>>> installed recently updated wheezie using
>>> apt-get upgrade
>>>
>>> Should I worry about backing up much, not really anything critical on
>>> the
>>> box.
>>>
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