On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:53 AM Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I am blind and can disassemble computers okay but never could learn > to assemble them since the equipment to test memory external to computers > has been and will remain inaccessible. This if it's done will have to be > done by a repair shop and likely will cost more to repair this machine > than replace it if that much work is involved. >
I was curious about speakup as I had not heard about it so I attempted an install on my Ubuntu desktop but it's not in the default repositories. Reading the Ubuntu docs they say speakup is applied as a kernel patch to 2.4 & 2.6 level kernels and that to use it with a modern version the patches would have to be ported. It appears that all the docs on speakup I found quickly stalled out in 2008-2010. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/doc/Speakup Do you know of newer work? I'm curious about the program from a persona point of view. When I started at National Semiconductor in 1978 we had a cantankerous old guy working on text-to-speach synthesizers so I had a little bit of exposure. There are old Ubuntu releases here: https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ If I can figure out what kernels they were running I could possibly try creating a VM and see where it leads me. Echoing Jack's comment, I'm not sure this is a heat sink problem. Misoperation at the time of letting go of the reset button prior to POST. If the machine is starting cold a processor wouldn't overheat that fast but I haven't yet read all of your thread. I think there's also an opportunity here to do some sort of remote debug with you if we can find anything that does boot. Mark
