John answered my general concerns about updates starting without notifying you. I rrealize, looking back, that my original question was too vague. I suspect the answer to it is "no", but let me rephrase the question. Is it possible to limit the scope of updates such that updates can occur as long as they do not cause kernel 2.x to be replaced by kernel 2.(x+1)? Obviously, if I can refuse all updates, I avoid the kernel being promoted. This is what I had in mind by putting a lock on the kernel. I think such a lock or scoping limit on updates could be useful, but I am always ready to be enlightened.
Michael Cross -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 57, Issue 14 Send Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-accessibility digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Meetings (kinouchou) 2. speech dispatcher as system service on ubuntu maverick (mk360) 3. Question about Kernels (Michael Cross) 4. Re: Question about Kernels (Jon) 5. Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu (Maurice McCarthy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:40:19 +0200 From: kinouchou <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Meetings To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" it's ok for me kinouchou 2010/8/13 Luke Yelavich <[email protected]> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:48:57AM EST, Penelope Stowe wrote: > > I apologize for not being good at getting logs up after meetings, > > but the meeting logs from the last meeting are up at > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingLogs/20100630 > > > > Our next meeting will be Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 21:00 UTC. > > > > If no one has any major complaints, I'd like to propose that > > meetings be the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 21:00 UTC. > > This works for me. > > Luke > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Regards, mk. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:24:27 -0500 From: "Michael Cross" <[email protected]> Subject: Question about Kernels To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <5b43c7175a9948ccbfe437cd723c0...@winterkid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I recently got Vinux 3 installed on Ubuntu 10. After making some adjustments such as disabling screen savers and setting sleep and hybrid modes to "never", everything seems to be working well. I am worried about Ubuntu updates. I do not know how disruptive they are to accessibility. Is there a way to put a lock on the kernel you currently have? I want to avoid being updated to a more aggressive, less stable kernel. I do not want to be constantly recovering from problems caused by updates. Please recommend a conservative update strategy. For instance, how do I disable automatic updates? I would prefer to be notified that updates are available, but not be forced to install them until I am ready. Any advice will be much appreciated. Michael Cross ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:04:26 +0100 From: Jon <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Question about Kernels To: Michael Cross <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii As far as i know, no updates are performed without your explicit agreement, so you should not have any issues there. Maybe vinux has changed the default and turned on critical updates, but thats probably better answered by the vinux people. Hope this helps. -Jon On Sxat 14/08/2010 at 16:24:27, Michael Cross wrote: > I recently got Vinux 3 installed on Ubuntu 10. After making some > adjustments such as disabling screen savers and setting sleep and > hybrid modes to "never", everything seems to be working well. I am > worried about Ubuntu updates. I do not know how disruptive they are to > accessibility. Is there a way to put a lock on the kernel you > currently have? I want to avoid being updated to a more aggressive, > less stable kernel. I do not want to be constantly recovering from > problems caused by updates. Please recommend a conservative update > strategy. For instance, how do I disable automatic updates? I would > prefer to be notified that updates are available, but not be forced to > install them until I am ready. Any advice will be much appreciated. > > Michael Cross > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:41:33 +0100 From: Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Steve, Sorry I didn't notice that I'd replied to you personally instead of to the list. And I'm even more sorry that I'm now stumped as to what the answer might be. For sound output I have Altec Lansing speakers. The volume has to be physically turned up on a knob but usually I use a head set to avoid disturbing my wife. The headset has to be selected in System - Preferences - Sound - Output and the volume set. I installed festival and ran a --tts command and yet it played through the speakers. I presume this means that it bypasses the pulse audio system. It is a shot in the dark but have you tried running the command $ sudo restorespeech ? I'm trying to attach the script here. It comes with Vinux 3 but I don't think it is part of the normal Ubuntu 10.04. Put a copy in /usr/bin/ and chmod 0766 to use it. Parts of the script call programs requiring root privileges to run. However, as you already have sound a root then it may not work. Good Luck Maurice On 14 August 2010 23:26, Stephen S. Disbrow <[email protected]> wrote: > Maurice, > ? I did use --tts. Also I forgot to note that if I run this as my user steve > I do get an error on /dev/dsp which is something like no perms. I tried it > as root, and didn't get this error, but still no sound. I also changed > /dev/dsp to 666 and than no error as steve, but still no sound. > Thanks, > > Steve D. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice McCarthy" <[email protected]> > To: "Stephen S. Disbrow" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:39 AM > Subject: Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu > > > Steve > > The last argument should be --tts > That is a double dash and not a single one. > > Best Wishes > Maurice > > On 13 August 2010 15:33, Stephen S. Disbrow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I installed festival tts in ubuntu 10.4, but when I try to test it by >> doing echo "\"hello world\"" | festival -tts I get no errors, but I don't >> hear any sound what might I need to to do to make it work?. >> >> I also installed a bunch of recommended packages such as nas, and >> audiooss, >> but I removed them alThanks >> >> Steve >> > > > -- Best Wishes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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