Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

[jeremy]

Nah, I'd just used the shortcut key to power on the vm and then the 
shortcut to send input over to it. As far as any output, it was all 
being sent to the vm's display. Either way, from the very little I could 
see on the vm's window, it was pretty obvious that Linux was never 
actually booting. After I'd power it on, it would take me to something 
that looked like a grub menu and then right afterwards, have a tiny bit 
of text in the top left corner that would never change. Typically, on 
any other Linux installation inside VMWare, once the grub menu displays 
and you make a selection, you'd see a great deal of text scroll on the 
display. This scrolling would normally take at least a few seconds and 
then either stop or clear out when it reaches the end, leaving you with 
the login area where you enter your username and password.
I'd also tried to do the same installation outside of VMWare player and 
everything worked as I'd expect it to, so I figured it was something 
caused by VMWare itself.
I figured it was worth mentioning here in this thread, as if it is the 
same problem, Debian failing to boot, it would certainly explain why 
there's no speech. :)
Take care.
On 11/7/2016 3:08 PM, John Covici wrote:
> How are you booting the machine and can you shell into it from another
> computer?  Once you shell in, it will be much easier to figure out
> what is going wrong.
>
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:15:38 -0500,
> jeremy wrote:
>> 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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