Re: ipod
Hi Mattias, On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:50:12PM +0100, mattias wrote: Any blind users here I do. If so Have you completely switch to linux? Totally not. If so How do you manage your ipod? My sighted partner does uses iTunes on a non-Linux PC; let me explain: - at the VERY VERY first sync you need (/mandatory) iTunes so that the device should be recognized and synced: there is no way yet to do this under Gnu/Linux - but, it's important to have a look at the libimobiledevice.org project, these libs and tools are now shipped with Ubuntu, they do have a ML where people are exchanging thos experiences in using i(Products) with the libimobiledevice packages. AFAIK the iProducts may be synced with Rhythmbox, GTKpod or Amarok, all these packs are available on your Ubuntu distro if wanted! But I'm not sure about those usability with Orca aso! Cf. http://www.libimobiledevice.org or apt-cache search imobile |more Success! Y P -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: [j.orcau...@gmail.com: Re: BrlTty defunct after upgrading Gutsy to Hardy]
Hi, my problem seems to be solved: removing the three # in /etc/init.d/brltty and I had already copied brltty.conf.dpkg.dist over brltty.conf and begun again the config. Now it works here with the right table. Thanks a lot. PS: still not understand why dpkg -l |grep brltty shows a brltty package in iF so it is installed but F what's that ? Y P On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:23:45PM +0100, Jon wrote: Sorry, I replied to the wrong list. -Jon - Forwarded message from Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:57:46 +0100 From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Y P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BrlTty defunct after upgrading Gutsy to Hardy Reply-To: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, in gutsy: When i tried to upgrade to brltty 3.9, brltty 3.7.2 didnt uninstall correctly, i had to undo the modifications to /etc/init.d/brltty before the package would uninstall. After this brltty 3.9 installed without any problems. Then a while later i decided to attempt to upgrade to hardy, modifying /etc/apt/sources.list and doing an upgrade all worked fine, except that orca didnt ever seem to talk to the braille display. Brltty is running, works in terminal mode, the python brlapi bindings where installed, but still no braille and orca. I did a update/upgrade cycle every few days, but nothing happend in this regard. With all the debate about speech output options, and the various hacks that needs doing, its currently on a todo-list for a reinstall of good old gutsy. So our experiences seem to have coincided. rest of reply in-body: On Tue 29/04/2008 at 19:23:52, Y P wrote: Hi, I've upgraded a laptop from Gutsy to Hardy using this method: sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude full-upgrade to first full upgrade Gutsy. Then: sudo aptitude install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade For brltty it proposed me to keep the current one, idem for the brltty.conf, that's the standard action; I ignore what to do so I simply pressed ENTER. The current brltty seems to be 3.9, so in fact it has upgraded it anyway. Why answering then things if it upgrades anyway? Jon: its because it recognized that there is a difference between your brltty.conf and the one that comes with the package, so it asked if you wanted to keep your own one, which is configured with your preferences. But now there is no any brltty when booting; and whe doing ps ax |grep -i brl ENTER for checking if it is started, I can't see any process started automatically. jon: what happens when you simply type brltty in a terminal? any output? And I still have the same brltty.conf as before with my de (german) table. Note: due to the bug in the Gutsy, at that moment I had recommented some raws to prevent some actions but I don't remember in which file it was and if that have caused tje problem now? jon: it did for me, but cant say for sure, in your case. Here are my conf files in attach. Y P -Jon - End forwarded message - -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
[wishlist] brltty
Hi all, Hi developers and/or maintainers/coworkers, After having commented the right (3) lines in /etc/init.d/brltty as indicated at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Braille my Ubntu Gutsy Gibbon *finally* booted-up without overriding my personalized /etc/brltty.conf But now I have three proposals for the Ubuntu-Accessibility team/brltty maintainer(s): 1* first, make us a nice Christmas surprise: do debug it and publish a new package with the hal/brltty bug fixed ! 2* btw, publish a recent version since 3.7.2 seems to be quite old enough... 3* last but not least, I presume autodetection is something important, but why not making the default text-table then dependent of the /etc/default/locale ? OK there are more locales and lang support under Linux than Braille tables, but that's absolutely not a problem since countries_linguistic parts like de_de or nl_nl or nl_be probably historically prefer a certain braille table as default, here de, just like for example fr_fr or fr_mc or fr_be or fr_ca prefer the fr table. Isn't this an idea ? Finally you must know that a non-US blind user like me reads yp|ubuntu56 instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ when brltty's us table is default: it's not a problem for five minutes but unusable for a long working day... And we shouldn't talk then about numbers... I know this is a comlicated problem, but this is a suggestion + an urgent wishlist: feel free to discuss about it. GrtnX Y P -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
TR: big problem with BrlTty under Gutsy
Hi, I have Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon pre-installed on my new Asus laptop. Ubuntu starts-up correctly but I encountered a BIG annoying problem with my Alva Satellite 544: the display is recognized but I doesn't like the us table and I wasn't able to find the efficient method to prevent hal to redetect the Alva or to override my /etc/brltty.conf: even if I mv /etc/udev/rules.d/85-brltty.rules or block /lib/brltty/brltty.sh or provide the same text-table de to both /etc/brltty.conf + /etc/brltty.conf.orig, it *still* continues to start with us table and to override /etc/brltty.conf Please it would be very nice to resolve this very big bug and publish asap a new brltty package update: I'm becoming crazy! If someone can tell me step by step what to do (since my English is not famous) I will try to do that, but please resolve the problem, it's awful and I can't help other peoplee as long as I can't help resolving my own problem. ThnX Y P -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
how about Ubuntu's presence on Linux World Expo in March?
Hi all, yet another great expo! isn't there any Ubuntu stand? http://www.linux-world.be/sites/www%5Flinuxworldexpo%5Fbe/en/ Y P :~ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
