no sound except speakup

[Didier Spaier]

Hello Glenn,

I can hardly answer, having never used this tool. But I don't think it
supports Slint, rather more known distributions.

Anyway, if you have another Linux distribution, by far the easiest way
would be to use it for that. You can just use a command like:
cp slint64-14.2.1.2.iso /dev/sdc
assuming that you USB key is known as /dev/sdc, which you can and should
check with a command like:
lsblk -l -o name,size,type|grep disk
after having plugged in the key.
The size should give you a clue on its name.

Copying takes a while, so please wait patiently after having issuing
the cp command that you get back the shell prompt.

Best,

Didier


On 08/06/2019 22:49, Glenn At Home wrote:
> SpeakUping of Slint,
> Can this be installed onto a flash drive with Universal USB Installer rather than Rufus?
> That is how I usually install Linux and other distros.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Didier Spaier 
> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2019 3:24 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. ; Jude DaShiell ; Kirk Reiser 
> Subject: Re: no sound except speakup
> 
> 
> Hello Jude,
> 
> I highly recommend reading PulseAudio under the hood from Victor Gaydov:
> https://gavv.github.io/articles/pulseaudio-under-the-hood/
> 
> It is not in the "official" documentation but provides a very in depth
> information while staying practical and understandable by the casual users
> like me. I just hope that would exist a similar document about ALSA.
> 
> My position is that if properly configured it should not mess up anything.
> 
> I can't remember a complaint I would have received about PulseAudio
> from Slint users - Including yourself <smile>. Maybe I forgot?
> 
> Best, Didier 
> 
> On 08/06/2019 20:23, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> >From what I've been reading on debian-user, and this is from sighted
>> users using the g.u.i., pulseaudio at most has two good use cases and
>> those are providing sound for a network, and being able to do many
>> samples of multiple sound streams.  If you don't need to do any of
>> those, you don't need pulseaudio.  It could be firefox is going to
>> deprecate pulseaudio in future too.
>> It's not as well documented as alsa either and its terminology imposes
>> an additional learning curve on top of alsa too.
>> My position on pulseaudio is if it gets installed, live with it until it
>> messes up then remove and prevent future downloads.
>>
>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, JOHN G HEIM wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 12:36:57
>>> From: JOHN G HEIM <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
>>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> To: Kirk Reiser <kirk at reisers.ca>,
>>>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> Subject: Re: no sound except speakup
>>>
>>>
>>> It was indeed pulseaudio. I killed the pulseaudio process and ran aplay
>>> again but it still did not work. But I noticed that another pulseaudio
>>> process had been started. So then I removed the pulseaudio package
>>> entirely. Now it works. But then I ran startx and got no speech from
>>> orca. But then I ran spd-conf and configured speech-dispatcher for alsa
>>> and now I get speech in the GUI too. So this is all good. This is my
>>> network server so I don't care about the GUI too much anyway. But it
>>> looks like if I really need a GUI, I'll have it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks everybody. Linux rocks. Well, the linux support community,
>>> specifically speakup and orca, rocks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/5/19 9:22 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
>>>> Hey John: When I've had similar issues with sound it's because there
>>>> is usually a pulse audio process running or trying to run. There are
>>>> work arounds to be able to use pulse audio but I believe it includes
>>>> running it as root or something. I don't use pulse audio so I'm not
>>>> sure of the work around but others are using it.
>>>>
>>>> ? Kirk
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, John G Heim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am running a debian buster machine in character mode. Speakup with
>>>>> software speech works fine but I can't get any other sound. When I
>>>>> use aplay to play a wav file, it prints the data indicating that it
>>>>> is playing the file but there is no sound. The same with espeak and
>>>>> spd-say at the command line. No error messages are displayed but
>>>>> there is no sound. I would think it was a volume problem except I can
>>>>> hear speakup. The sound card controls have volume settings, they are
>>>>> not user settings, right?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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