Debian upgrade to Jessie

[John G Heim]

There is a page on my space on the web site of the International 
Association Of Visually Impaired Technologists that explains how to get 
a doubletalk working with speakup. You do have to compile a kernel and 
that may be something you don't want to try. It is really not that 
difficult but you can make it so your machine doesn't boot if you do it 
wrong. You're not likely to do that but it can happen.

Anyway, you could try mypage at http://www.iavit.org/~john/debian/ for 
more information. I'll see if I can compile a kernel for debian jessie 
sometime over the next week. I have eleventy gazillion irons in the fire 
right now so I cannot promise anything.



On 05/18/2015 08:20 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> Thanks all for various comments.
> I did read the wikki but didn't seem to find anything about speakup.
> which
> is my only serious interest in screen readers for now.
> Yes use brltty also but unfortunately brltty's speech system doesn't
> support
> the doubletalk.
> My box is too slow for software speech unless I want a lot of naps.
>
> I believe running version 3.2.60-1+deb7u3
>
>
> Looks like my cowardly best bet is to wait till more experienced users
> have
> a go.
> Since I don't care about multiple desktops only reason to upgrade
> appears
> to be so as not to get behind the upgrades and eventually have to
> entirely
> reinstall.
> Thanks
>    Tom Fowle
>    wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm
>
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 12:21 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I did a full net install of Debian Jessie rather than upgrade Wheezy to
>> Jessie to Wheezy because Jessie gives alternative desktops.
>>
>> I picked the Mate desktop and it works very well, and accessibility is
>> excellent.
>>
>> Debian Jessie now includes Emacspeak in the repos, so no need to build
>> it from source.
>>
>> I have found no big accessibility problems.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 18/05/2015 03:41, acollins at icsmail.net wrote:
>>> Hi Tom.  I would suggest you test Jessie with a live cd, and if that
>>> works, then upgrade.
>>>
>>> Gene Collins
>>>
>>>
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>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael A. Ray
>> Analyst/Programmer
>> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
>>
>> "In the beginning there was Debian, and Ubuntu was without form, and
>> void"
>>
>> Eyes-free Linux:
>> http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/
>>
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