Re: lesson learned

2023-08-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
: > Hello, > > Jude DaShiell, le mar. 22 août 2023 21:00:14 -0400, a ecrit: > > I got that system installed fine, but once booted never got > > a screen reader to come up and speak. > > But was it booting at all? If not, this is not an accessibility issue (I > don't s

Re: lesson learned

2023-08-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
am Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Jude" == Jude DaShiell writes: > > Jude> For any interested in installing a system with screen reader > Jude> accessibility don't do what I did. It took me most of a day > Jude> to reverse but I finally got it reve

Re: lesson learned

2023-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
berty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 22 Aug 2023, K0LNY wrote: > I suspect it has to do with using either MBR or UEFI and how the BIOS is set > for that. > Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaS

lesson learned

2023-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
For any interested in installing a system with screen reader accessibility don't do what I did. It took me most of a day to reverse but I finally got it reversed. On no account choose lvm and entire disk in disk partitioning. I got that system installed fine, but once booted never got a screen

alternate mate startup

2023-05-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
With lightdm disabled running in console is no problem. What has me curious is what changes and/or additions I would need to make to the default startx script so when startx is run in the console it brings up mate and orca speaking. With lightdm enabled before a gui login, I found the f4 key

bookworm scripts work in mate-terminal and fail in console

2023-04-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
The bookworm packages selection for this system was desktop environment; mate, and standard utilities. Multimedia scripts I have work fine in mate-terminal and remain silent when run in console with espeakup. Had I only installed mate and standard utilities would this problem not exist? -- Jude

Re: most bookworm multimedia does not work

2023-04-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
lease use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > A couple scripts for anyone to use: > cut here. > #!/usr/bin/env bash > # file: lc - leave console mode. > sudo systemctl enable lightdm > sudo reboot > > cut here. > #!/usr/

Re: most bookworm multimedia does not work

2023-04-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
fense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Orca still works with much popping as keys get typed on the female voice. > > > -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in > de

Re: most bookworm multimedia does not work

2023-04-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Orca still works with much popping as keys get typed on the female voice. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have scripts

most bookworm multimedia does not work

2023-04-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have scripts that use vlc and mpv to play streaming stations and neither of those programs work and I'm not entirely sure about sox either. Use of deb.multimedia.org has not fixed the problems this time either. Replacement of pulseaudio with pipe wire hasn't solved the problems either.

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
enn > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; > > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 1:34 AM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > If you can get local to that machine and not use ssh to connect you may > wa

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
nough, and tried a > bigger PS. > This Intel NUC will use anything from 9 to 19 volts for power. > I was using an old Braille & Speak 12 volt PS, and I replaced it with a > laptop PS. > Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
uck with the external soundcard. > Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 10:23 PM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > Have you tried orca --replace lately? > > >

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
udio and USB1. > The latter is likely the USB audio card, but I tried both anyway, and the > audio comes out the external USB soundcard, in the terminal. > That is with all terminal audio tests. > But either choice gives me nothing in the GUI with Orca. > > Glenn > - Original Me

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
og-stereo" > device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo" > device.description = "Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A) Analog Stereo" > alsa.mixer_name = "USB Mixer" > alsa.components = "USB0d8c:0014" > module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" > device.icon_name = "audio-card-usb" > ports: > analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 1, latency offset 0 usec, > available: unknown) >properties: > device.icon_name = "audio-speakers" > active port: > > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 5:33 PM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > Try running pulseaudio in ssh with nothing on the command line, that may > start it up. > > >

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
> in terminal, I ran > paplay file.wav > and it played like with aplay. > Then, via SSH, I ran > pulseaudio --status > and it came back with > unrecognized option --status > > Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0L

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
lenn wrote: > aplay -l > says the audio devices now include the USB soundcard. > It is card1 > How do I get the desktop to use that from the CLI, so I have use of Orca? > Or, if card0 is muted, how do I unmute it? > > Thanks > > Glenn > ----- Original Message - >

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
> Orca should be running, but there is no sound. > speaker-test and aplay do work now in the terminal with the USB soundcard. > Is there a command that will list all sound devices and their states with > regard to volume and mute status? > > Thanks > - Original Message ---

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
py of the command and the error: > lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ sudo bash unmutetoggle.sh > graphic 192 Home directory not accessible: Permission denied > > Connection failure: Connection refused > pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused > graphic 545 lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ >

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
card. Sometimes these computers go defective and the defect hits the sound system directly. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > You

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
ions and entering, and escaping, and still no > sound. > What are some commands I can do to unmute everything and make sure the > volume is all the way up? > This Linux audio issue is disparaging in terms of Linux ever becoming a > viable OS for the Blind. > Glenn >

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
[HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; > > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 6:57 PM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may be running pcm in that case you might try amixer Set PCM 100% unmute also check /var/lock/alsa for any files ending in .lck and then try to configure and if you get sound alsactl store. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
You know, if all of those symbols were in some font set and had text labels attached to them that could speak when a screen reader was used a whole bunch of playing card applications would suddenly become accessible for screen reader users. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: Installation Errors

2023-03-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
nmtui I found works better. It's possible the area of the drive with /home in it is going bad. I'm running smartctl -t long over here since I'm pretty sure that's what's happening here. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

debian bookworm mate clipboard

2023-03-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
What is already on the default install or what utility should I download to run a clipboard in mate with orca? Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: executable trouble

2023-03-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
only windows 10 I have is not on > > a portable computer, and the nanoVNA is best used as a portable device. > > Glenn > > - Original Message - > > *From:* D.J.J. Ring, Jr. > > *To:* K0LNY_Glenn > > *Cc:* Jude DaShiell ; > > debian-accessibili

Re: executable trouble

2023-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Download it correctly using: git clone https://github.com/NanoVNA-Saver/nanovna-saver Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: executable trouble

2023-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
thor, 1940) . On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > It tells me it is not a directory, that is why I then tried running the > file. > Glenn > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; "D.J.J. Ring, Jr."

Re: executable trouble

2023-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
log may be a better choice. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Why not try cat nano-vnasaver | strings | less an

Re: executable trouble

2023-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not try cat nano-vnasaver | strings | less and find what shows up? The pipe through strings will only pass strings to less so your screen doesn't get messed up. If one of the first lines in that file is something like #!/usr/bin/env python then this is a python package and maybe source code

Re: executable trouble

2023-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
What does the package do? Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > I looked at GIT HUB https://github.com/NanoVNA-Saver/nanovna-saver

Re: executable trouble

2023-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try running your command again and use 2>&1 | tee -a errorzip.log where errorzip.log is the file to check then send with wc -lwc errorzip.log if the three numbers you get are greater than 0 then the file has contents that may be useful. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
send questions to debian-b...@lists.debian.org along with install logs. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > I am installing with

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
Logs should be sent to debian-boot list if memory serves and size doesn't matter on that list either. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, john doe wrote: >

Re: no space left on device

2022-11-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > The first one listed is > dpkg.log > The next one is > kern.log > > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_G

Re: no space left on device

2022-11-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Next, try this: > ls -1S /var/log/*.log. > The first log name you read will be the largest log in that directory and > the logs get progressively smaller. > > > > Jude "There are four boxes to be used in > defense o

Re: no space left on device

2022-11-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
lt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Yeah, that tells me 170 M. > So I deleting everything would help. > Is it safe to do that? > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; "Jeffery Mew

Re: no space left on device

2022-11-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
there's a lot of log files there, is it okay to just delete them all? > I don't know to see how much space they are taking up. > Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; "Jeffery Mewtamer" > ; > Sent: W

Re: no space left on device

2022-11-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Are logs being rotated timely and correctly? If not, you likely have lots > of ancient logs in /var/log/. How to check and set up good log rotation I > don't know t

Re: no space left on device

2022-11-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Are logs being rotated timely and correctly? If not, you likely have lots of ancient logs in /var/log/. How to check and set up good log rotation I don't know though. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed

Re: Debian and Orca installation Question

2022-11-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
The super key is the windows start key. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Jason White wrote: > > On 30/10/22 05:03, Egon wrote: > > I installed the Mate

Re: sources.list

2022-10-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
likely nonfree is missing from your sources.list. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: file permissions

2022-10-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 30 Oct 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The chmod command mostly uses a two-dimensional matrix. The first column > is user, the next is group and the third is wo

Re: file permissions

2022-10-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
The chmod command mostly uses a two-dimensional matrix. The first column is user, the next is group and the third is world. One number for each of those. Each of those numbers is built with a 4 for read, a 2 for write and a 1 for execute. So you add those numbers and that's how chmod is put

Re: file permissions

2022-10-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
I hope you didn't. Chown changes the owner of the file. If your user account was glen, you could have done chown glen and you'd have to be root to have done that to the files in your user directory. The chmod command is what takes a number as a parameter ahead of the file name. Jude "There

Re: how to format

2022-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
a new drive to have > some malware on it, so I like to wipe the partition and reformat it, in case > they get infected during manufacturing. > Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" ; > > Sent: Saturday, October 2

Re: how to format

2022-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
parted has helped me format drives in the past too. It should work on debian too. In archlinux I did: lsblk Then checked id of new drive on system. If it's sdb parted -a optimal /dev/sdb Then I did: unit mib Then I did: print That shows what if anything is already on the disk. If the type of

Re: how to format

2022-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
mkfs isn't a command. mkfs is a prefix. If yu want to put an ext4 partition on a drive you use mkfs.ext4. You might check for that command and check for the other mkfs commands as well. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

Re: What's Wrong with this Mirror?

2022-10-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Earlier problems with official debian multimedia packages were that they didn't produce any sound when the unofficial packages worked as expected. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author,

Re: What's Wrong with this Mirror?

2022-10-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Did you download and install the multimedia gpg key, if not that's probably the cause of this error. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, Chime Hart wrote:

Re: replace pulseaudio with pipewire

2022-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
" -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 06:37:43AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >Thanks this worked. Though it's possible either my sources.list is > >missing an entry or pipewire.pulse got deprecated and rem

Re: replace pulseaudio with pipewire

2022-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
t; > Am 09.10.22 um 16:49 schrieb Jude DaShiell: > > What should be done to replace pulseaudio with pipewire and have the > > screen reader come up and talk? > > I my case on Debian testing it was enough to remove the pulseaduio package and > install pipewire, pipewire-pul

replace pulseaudio with pipewire

2022-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
The bookworm alpha I installed put pulseaudio on this system and others on the debian-users list are having problems with pulseaudio when it gets updated. What should be done to replace pulseaudio with pipewire and have the screen reader come up and talk? It's possible multimedia will be or

re: killall espeakup

2022-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
speechctl doesn't exist, so sysctl stop espeakup ought to get the job done. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2022-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try sysctl stop speechctl That probably works better. killall is pre-systemd and likely not compatible. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Thu, 6 Oct 2022, Frank Carmickle

re: debian academy initiative

2022-09-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is it appropriate or does debian-accessibility already have a debian academy online training course to educate on a11Y and how that connects to debian? Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author,

Re: Cannot Connect To WIFI

2022-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
As root first run man tee and see if tee is on your system. If it is, as root try: dhclient -v | tee dhclient.log You may get a connection or maybe not. Either way what dhclient tries to do will be in dhclient.log and that attached to a message will be informative and maybe informative enough for

Re: text browsers

2022-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
eww is inside emacs. Something else maybe worthwhile customizing in emacs is newsticker, it's an rss feed reader. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 2 Sep 2022, Chime

Re: text browsers

2022-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
links can be made a little easier with customization and anyone into using any software package for a large amount of future time may profit from studying and customizing configuration. I've used w3m and eww with some success in the past. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: pinfo replaced info-stnd

2022-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I managed to install info. The searches didn't locate it for me and it was listed as an optional package so maybe my sources.lst file could do with some improvements. On Mon, 11 Jul 2022, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Jude DaShiell, le lun. 11 juil. 2022 02:08:52 -0400, a ecri

pinfo replaced info-stnd

2022-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
So far as I can tell in debian-bullseye pinfo is unuseable with screen readers. You can listen to the beginning of any info file but try to review the screen or take any action with the cursor after the initial read and you'll find a blank screen. Normally in a situation like this one would

new computer status

2022-06-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
First I purged cinnamon. That took a while but now espeakup works without plymouth. Next with sighted assistance from two people I got the boot order straightened out with usb and dvd included on it before the nvme real estate. I found alsa has several problems working with mplayer vlc mpv and

Re: new computer and debian-bullseye

2022-06-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I didn't install debian, thinkpenguin did that. As of now it's on nvme and won't boot from a dvd yet so I can't wipe their mess and install anything else correctly. Any more computers from them come without an operating system so we cut down on mistakes. On Tue, 21 Jun 2022, john doe wrote: >

Re: Accessible Coconut

2022-03-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I installed and had accessible coconut running on a test basis. That was several years ago so it could be accessibility improved. I use orca and that had no problems working on that earlier version. The cocofrix site was the one I used to get info and download the iso. On Sun, 6 Mar 2022,

Re: Debian Accessibility

2022-02-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
In osx 10.4 tiger I was told it was 10 seconds. On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Again repeating myself. Please people do help me, otherwise I won't be > able to help you. > > Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > > > I understand recent installers for both OSX and Windows start

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2022-01-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I agreed with you, both of us would be wrong. On Sun, 9 Jan 2022, batman wrote: > high, I am batman, wlcome to gothum city > > On 30/12/2021 15:56, Jordan Livesey wrote: > > I don't have to tell you this but for the last time, slackware isn't easy to > > use nore is anything based on

Re: Tutorial wasRe: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
acbradio now has a youtube channel available for subscription too. On Sat, 1 Jan 2022, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > Following the link gives me an invalid certificate error in Firefox, > ignoring the warning brings me to the so long message, but removing > the s from https brings me to a page that

Re: Tutorial wasRe: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
The android program to download is acb link or by now maybe that's also gone. On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > It now says "so long" - I guess it's all gone. > > DR > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 6:19 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > https://www.a

Re: Tutorial wasRe: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have no idea what happened there. On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > It now says "so long" - I guess it's all gone. > > DR > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 6:19 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > https://www.acbradio.org/ is the starting point. It's a rad

Re: Tutorial wasRe: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Is this acbradio, a podcast, radio program, linux application, or what? > > acbradio has a main menu program and a large archive of programs from main > menu available for download. > > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 3:26 PM Jude DaShiell w

Re: Tutorial wasRe: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
t; > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 3:26 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > acbradio has a main menu program and a large archive of programs from main > > menu available for download. One of them has a debian install > > demonstration in it and anot

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Sometimes report-bug will find the right list for you and running report-bug will get the report in in the correct format. Only thing is, you need to already have an smtp transport package working first since report-bug will use that to send your report. On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr.

Re: Tutorial wasRe: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
acbradio has a main menu program and a large archive of programs from main menu available for download. One of them has a debian install demonstration in it and another one has a slackware demonstration install in it. It will not be easy to find them either but they're some of the earlier

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
gnome, the 800 pound gorilla of desktop systems. Pandemic memory prices have gone up and lighter memory systemsmay not be able to take a visit from our gorilla. On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, john doe wrote: > On 12/31/2021 4:12 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > The network-manager package should be

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Mouse accessibility stinks no matter on what operating system it exists. Icons are too small too numerous on a screen and haven't got standard screen positions either. If those three problems could be fixed then mouse accessibility would get workable. Say putting at most 9 mouse icons on any

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
The screen command will be your friend if you study it and learn to write a good .screenrc file. On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, john doe wrote: > On 12/31/2021 2:37 AM, Mike Reiser wrote: > >> I have thought about switching to just working in a console, but I worry > >> about having to memorize a bunch

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
nmcli is in the network-manager package. Once the package is downloaded, network-manager has to be started before nmcli and nmtui can be used. On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, john doe wrote: > On 12/31/2021 6:51 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > Debian desperately needs a console network manager like

Re: Debian Accessibility

2021-12-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's a bit more complex than that now. First press a on the boot prompt then hit enter. then press s on the continued boot prompt. then press x on the boot prompt and then hit enter and listen to what happens. Likely speech comes up along with a numbered menu which is what the expert mode

re: Iggdrasill, a new amazing screen reader

2021-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
So everybody understands, when I write something about a particular Linux distro not being accessible I have already downloaded and tested that distro.

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have been introduced to many different Linux distributions recently. clear linux was the most recent and latest version of Manjaro neither appear to have any screen reader in them. Most Linux distributions don't have accessibility stacks built into them. As for Iggdrasill, it's not ready for

Re: debian multimedia now works

2021-12-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
> my particular sound card, an Intel PCH ALC888. > > Best wishes to all,, Merry Christmas if you celebrate that holiday, which I > do. > > David > > > > On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 2:32 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > The firmware had a date of 2021-12-08 on it.

Re: debian multimedia now works

2021-12-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
can see, I just continued with the installation, and when I rebooted I had > screen reader in console. > > However the same /home partition I was using for Buster somehow has > configuration files which break Xorg so I had to make a new user. > > Ho, ho, ho! > > David > > On

debian multimedia now works

2021-12-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried installing deb-multimedia.org and pub keys weren't available at least not on debian so then I did apt remove --purge pulseaudio and an apt autoremove after that and now multimedia players work correctly. This was a base install, no desktop and pulseaudio was installed for some reason I

debian multimedia packages silent

2021-12-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
What prevents audacious mpv and vlc from producing any sound on streams known to work on other distributions? I have streams saved in scripts and running those scripts on debian produces only silence.

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
So long as a dog will hunt, stay with that dog. When the dog can't hunt any longer for whatever reason, it's time to find a new dog. On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, john doe wrote: > On 12/12/2021 10:59 AM, Pawel L. wrote: > > Hi, > > I think that the blind Linux community would benefit more from > >

Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2021-11-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 18:51:47 From: Linux for blind general discussion To: blinux-l...@redhat.com Subject: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation Hi all, I wonder if we can avoid disk erase process during debian text-based

[slint] Re: After Upgrade 14 September 2021 Cannot Login to Mate (fwd)

2021-09-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Could the same thing have happened in debian? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 05:46:50 From: Didier Spaier Reply-To: sl...@freelists.org To: sl...@freelists.org Subject: [slint] Re: After Upgrade 14 September 2021 Cannot Login to Mate Hello David, thanks for

Re: CORRECTED - Bullseye No Speech In Consoles 2-6 and Unable to Login as User

2021-09-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
est regards, > > David > > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 6:32 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Nothing in those logs that would point at the kind of trouble you have > > been having. I checked for fatal and error and warning and found some > > un-related errors in dme

Re: CORRECTED - Bullseye No Speech In Consoles 2-6 and Unable to Login as User

2021-09-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
Nothing in those logs that would point at the kind of trouble you have been having. I checked for fatal and error and warning and found some un-related errors in dmesg. On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > The logs are here, is there something more that I should do? > > I don't know

Re: CORRECTED - Bullseye No Speech In Consoles 2-6 and Unable to Login as User

2021-09-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
A real good spade is likely to be called grep. Fatal and Error and Warning and whatever additional text is in those entries may be informative. The lastlog file and running dmesg and saving output to a file and checking that output for boot messages might help. On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, john doe

Re: firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso Install

2021-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
What happens if desktop isn't installed but mate is installed? Does mate come up as the default once that's done? I haven't tried that yet but could check it out. On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/21/21, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've had a while to try to

Re: firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso Install

2021-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
You may need to run spd-conf as user and make sure espeak or espeak-ng is pointed at correct sound resources in order for that to work. Alternatively, fenrir may solve the speech problem for tty1-tty6. On Sat, 21 Aug 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Hello, > > I've had a while to try to get

Re: Debian 11 unofficial firmware first installation

2021-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
> Too bad they didn't see my message about RC3 failures that I sent. > > Best wishes, > > David > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:02 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Debian thought they hit the bullseye with this one, likely the range would > > score this one as a 9. >

Re: Debian 11 unofficial firmware first installation

2021-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
There's 1 through 10 each of which is in a smaller ring the bullseyes are inside the 10 ring. On Wed, 18 Aug 2021, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > I'm not familiar with darts, shooting ranges, or anything else in the > target hitting category... how good/bad is a score of 9 for a single > shot? > >

Re: Debian 11 unofficial firmware first installation

2021-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Debian thought they hit the bullseye with this one, likely the range would score this one as a 9. On Wed, 18 Aug 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > I sent a message to the group that the Release of Bullseye has two big > problems. > > 1.) You cannot log into MATE as a regular user. > 2.) The sound

Re: Report on Latest Testing (Bullseys) Weekly

2021-08-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
the password problem. On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Strange! > > > On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > > The iso just doesn't speak when installing, it says on the screen: > > > > To use this sound card, press Enter now. > > To use this sou

Re: Report on Latest Testing (Bullseys) Weekly

2021-08-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
an get into MATE Graphic User Interface. > > But that's not what is supposed to be. > > Both the latest weekly build with firmware and the last Bullseye RC3 are > broken at least when running on my computer. > > Best Regards, > David > > > > > On Sun,

Re: Report on Latest Testing (Bullseys) Weekly

2021-08-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Maybe try speakertest| tee speakertest.log. If that generates a log file and static over the speaker, examine the log file since the sound card speakertest found ought to be listed near the top of that log file. amixer set Master 100% unmute may also help some. If it does, make sure to run alsactl

Re: Logs from Failed Bullseye RC3 Netinstall CD Accessible installation

2021-08-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
The first thing that needs to be done for the wi-fi users is to make an experimental installer and keep it in-house. Find out if ifup or other utilities can bring up wi-fi after first boot. We don't have these problems on slint. On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi David, > > On

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