Debian upgrade to Jessie

[Techswing33]

Hi,

Thanks. I guess that's what I'll have to do.

Thanks.
Dave.


On 5/18/15, Rob <captinlogic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> 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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