Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

[Gregory Nowak]

The OP was asked earlier in the thread if sounds besides espeak could
be played/heard, and the answer was yes. So, I for one assumed until
this point that whatever the issue is, it isn't an install that
doesn't boot.

Greg


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 01:21:18PM -0600, jeremy wrote:
> 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.


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