Oh, I forgot you were trying this on a Power PC (PCP). The arch stuff is mainly Intel style processors as far as I can tell. On those platforms, Arch is great.
Another thought concerning machines with so little memory, I would try and stick to the native text console as much as possible as that will work on machines with as little as 32 MB of memory. I have an old laptop here with just that and the text console works fine but I wouldn't think for a minute of attempting to run gnome on that. That's one deal where Slackware really shines; it can run on almost a shoe string. On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:26:37AM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote: > Steve, > last I heard, there wasn't a lot of support in arch for PPC and virtually > nothing for the blind ppc user in particular. I went ubuntu 10.10 PPC here. > it took getting some assistance via Skype (and my webcam) with the guy on the > far end being my eyes, but we got it up and working with orca. there are > still a few issues with that machine. after a random amount of time, the > udisks-daemon would go into runaway and the machine would become increasingly > unresponsive (causing orca to get equally as unresponsive). doing a sudo > reboot under those conditions is very trying. I have to have faith that I > typed in the command properly and then wait for the beep indicating success. > > I am not sure what causes this problem. I have mitigated it somewhat by use > of the noacpi flag in the yaboot.conf file. it still happens, only it takes a > little longer. I will also have to look up what commands I have on startup > that I can dispense with (120 processes on a machine with 384 MB of ram is a > bit much). > > anyway, its up and running (mostly). > > -Eric > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > I'm a big fan of Arch Linux. Go to www.archlinux.org and look around > > in the wiki for archlinux for the blind or something like that. Chris > > Brannon has developed a talking boot image with speech at the text > > console. From there, one can install gnome, gnome-extra to get Orca > > going. Sorry, I don't have the exact URL right now but can look this > > up later on tomorrow if you're more interested. > > > > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:23:06AM -0700, Stephen wrote: > >> Not sure how it will go for install bit gentoo has a massive application > >> repo and a solid pox build. And since they build from source its very cross > >> arch friendly. > >> > >> I would also look at the recent Ubuntu as they might have some easy things > >> built > >> On Oct 22, 2010 11:33 PM, "Technomage Hawke" <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> well, > >>> I finally got with the program and went imap on my mac. this means I don't > >> need to store any messages locally.it also means I can check my mail from > >> other locations using my powerbook. > >>> > >>> speaking of which, I may need some sighted help getting a workable image > >> for a talking linux on that machine. Adriane knoppix looks good, except all > >> my testing lead to crashes under a VM on the big mac. > >>> > >>> this could be a problem in virtualbox. > >>> > >>> also, I think I am going to take my old windows machine, and convert it > >> over to linux. I was waiting for Voc Rehab to get off their collective > >> butts > >> and do something about getting me some adaptive technology. but it looks > >> like its going to take a while. besides adriane knoppix, any other good > >> talking linux distress anyone can think of? I keep getting too many useless > >> hits in google and its maddeningly slow using speech. > >>> > >>> -Eric > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------- > >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
