I haven't found any distro that supports emacspeak on a PPC yet. about as small as I can get is a base install of gnome with no frills..
-Eric On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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
