Yeah, dunno about emacspeak on that but I was originally thinking of running Speakup in the kernel or as kernel modules. But again, I don't know if the speakup modules can run on other platforms such as Power PC.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:38:51AM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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
