Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

[jeremy]

Kind of a strange question, but I'd make sure that you are actually able 
to boot into the new system, once you've finished up with the install. I 
have absolutely no clue why, but the last time I tried a Debian 8 
install inside vmware, using the normal text installer from the net 
install cd, I never could get it to boot. I don't have enough site to be 
able to see what's actually on the screen, but it certainly wasn't 
getting beyond just a second or two after powering on the vm.

With any other distribution I've tried there, it worked great, so I 
never could quite understand why the latest debian was giving me issues 
with VMWare. That would certainly explain why you had no speech on 
starting it up and why none of your commands seem to work. haha
Don't know if it matters or even if it's what's behind your issue, but I 
was trying it on the latest VMWare player with windows7 as the host.

On 11/7/2016 1:56 PM, Hunter Hoke wrote:
> Whoops. I also tried it as root and nothing happened.
>
> On 11/5/16, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 04:58:49PM -0400, Hunter Hoke wrote:
>>> I used the installation speech with espeak.
>> Yes, I realize that, but you didn't answer my question which I left
>> intact below.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>> On 11/4/16, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:00:13PM -0400, Hunter Hoke wrote:
>>>>> I did. I typed Espeak hello, and nothing happened.
>>>> Logged in as root, or a normal user? If logged in as a normal user,
>>>> try it as root. If that works, then your problem is likely with
>>>> pulseaudio. If it doesn't work as root, then I'm not sure what the
>>>> problem could be.
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>>
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