---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:13:15 From: Albert Sten-Clanton <[email protected]> To: 'Jude DaShiell' <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: RE: [orca-list] Installing ubuntu desktop- I Give Up! (fwd) Greetings! The problems in the message you forwarded sound a good deal like ones I had. I don't know what might work with a Ubuntu live CD, which I'd like to so I could play with the Unity desktop. I did get Vinux 3.1 to work, though, thanks to the Vinux quickstart guide: http://vinuxproject.org/getting-started- In particular, using the volume_keys command described in the section about troubleshooting sound problems got me a talking Vinux. I also note that I did not have sound after actually installing Vinux 3.1 on my hard drive: the sound settings that volume_keys allowed me to get didn't carry over. I used the instructions for storing the state of the sound card found at <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_for_the_blind> With a change or two relevant to my then-new Vinux installation. It worked. Hope this is useful. Al ----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 4:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [orca-list] Installing ubuntu desktop- I Give Up! (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:21:45 From: Martin McCormick <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Installing ubuntu desktop- I Give Up! After spending about two weekends and weekday evenings, basically all spare time, trying to get ubuntu10.10 then failing that, ubuntu9.10 with orca to install on a Dell Dimension system running a Pentium4 processor, I am tossing in the towel. The ubuntu live CD for 10.10 never once produced any sound although it went through the most elaborate mime I have ever seen of the booting process. You could hear the CDROM running and the laser mechanism could be heard zipping back and forth, obviously reading the disk, etc. At the end of about 5 minutes, things would quiet down and I hit Tab, then Enter, then Alt-F2 followed by orca and then Enter again. More rattling from the laser as if something was happening, but more dead silence. The Vinux3.0 and 3.1 CD's go through the same time-wasting tease, making one think that a working system is just minutes away, but the end result is the same as trying to boot the ubuntu10.10 CD. The sound chip set is good. Other disks such as the older Vinux2.1 bootable CD come right up talking. The ubuntu8.10 live CD plays the melody and cricket sounds as it boots up. The ubuntu9.10 live CD uses a different procedure to start orca and one does hear "Welcome to orca." The running orca desktop is not quite healthy, however. It will randomly freeze, maybe 30 seconds; maybe 5 minutes; maybe an hour later, but at some point, one can hit a key, hear no response and it's all over and darned if this P.C. has no HW reset button. There are probably a couple of pins somewhere on the mother board, but I will have to get somebody to help find them and one shouldn't have to do a hardware reset often anyway. I installed ubuntu9.10 on the hard drive and got orca to talk after login, but after another random freeze, the system wants to go in to rescue mode. None of that talks so I may just end up giving up on orca for now, installing the old Vinux so as to get some use from the system, and waiting to see if ubuntu11 has any better discovery mechanisms to get the audio and orca running. During one time when things were running, I installed and ran memtester. There are 1.3 GB of RAM and a 2.7GHZ processor and it all seems to be working like it should. I know the hardware discovery mechanism is extremely tricky and I think that is where things are breaking down. When trying the ubuntu10.10 and Vinux3.x CD's which are based on ubuntu10.10, I get the impression that the hardware discovery mechanism reaches the wrong conclusion on my system and tries to work based on that. My dear wife has helped me go through the CMOS setup several times and we have verified that the CMOS knows the sound is on, that the hard drive is second behind the CDROM in boot order, the video is set to use the onboard chips and we have a 8-meg video buffer. There is really no other way to set it other than to choose a 1-meg buffer. I think we've done everything we can do and ubuntu10.10 refuses to play. Ubuntu9.10 plays, but blacks out and can't remember where it was, so to speak. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
