Please trim your posts.

2016-08-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi folks. Just a reminder that you should trim your posts. If you really feel you must top post, then please trim anything that is not relevant to the conversation and your reply. I've just had to let through some posts because they were too big, and this could have been avoided by doing a

Re: Orca does not speak

2016-08-07 Thread Glenn / Lenny
Now that you mention that, I wonder if I could have gone to a terminal and did: sudo apt-get update and fixed the problem. I could have done that much without speech. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;

Re: Orca does not speak

2016-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you do try anymore ubuntu I suggest getting your system installed. If your new system talks, only download missing packages you want and if you suddenly loose speech and haven't rebooted remove what you just installed. On no account do any system-wide updates of that new system until you

Re: Orca does not speak

2016-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
the update command only updates your local version of the packages database, you would next have to have done apt-get upgrade and hope the upgrade didn't break anything. On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote: Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 09:48:03 From: Glenn / Lenny To: Jude

Re: Orca does not speak

2016-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of all other versions. Then you'd select the version and select whether to

Re: Orca does not speak

2016-08-07 Thread Glenn / Lenny
yeah, that would be pretty much impossible with no speech. If I don't get a solution, I don't know what is next. Maybe the 32 bit install will not do this? Glenn - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;

Re: making an ISO image

2016-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
When making isos, you supply a trunk directory ending with the slash character and understand all subdirectories below that trunk directory will be included in that iso. I've never tried that with dd. I've used a cdburn script that was put up on the speakup e-mail list several years ago to