When booting from the cd, you need to press enter for english, f5, then 3, then enter twice. On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:18 PM, michael weaver wrote:
> i seem to be having problems on my desktop pc with karmic. > i wait until my cd stops spinning in bootup only i can still he > the fan for my cd drive, i press enter to select english, f5 and > enter twice and my pc boots into ubuntu, i hear the ubuntu sounds > but no speech. > i press alt f2, type orca and this goes to orca setup. > i am asked to login after making my changes, i hit y followed by > enter, i hear the drums, i press enter, type ubuntu and nothing > happens after that. > to get speech to start without having to go through the setup i > seem to have to try and run orca manually midway through boot. > sometimes this works but again this is hit and miss. > has anyone got any advice? > my laptop boot time seems different from my desktop boot time as > i didn't have the same kind of problem with my toshiba laptop > unless i have a faulty karmic cd which is why it seems to be hit > and miss. > i tried the lucid cd which i burned to a rre writable dvd and > this went through the boot procedure quicker only i again got the > setup orca screens and when i got the message for logging out, it > was followed quickly by "welcome to orca" and didn't even let me > log out. > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
