Fwd: [Support] trisqel accessibility information
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I have reports that the AMD64 version of the Trisquel pre-release is not available. Furthermore, Orca, on the 32-bit version will not speak when user tries booting on an AMD cpu. Can anyone with an AMD 8K confirm this? I do not have one available.
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Dave H.
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> From: Jude DaShiell <name at domain>
> Date: February 3, 2013 7:58:52 PM EST
> To: name at domain
> Subject: Re: [Support] trisqel accessibility information
>
> Booting the version of trisqel Dave Hunt pointed me at which passed its
> md5sum check on an amd k8 just made the speakers pop. Booting that same
> disk on a real intel machine though did get orca up and talking. I
> suspect the two versions of orca are now different enough that what the
> amd k8 can do for intel emulation isn't enough for the intel version of
> orca any longer. The amd version was also not current and wasn't on the
> page Dave Hunt pointed me to either.
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Hey Dave!
These are the only isos I can find http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ Only 32-bit available. (i686)
I have an amd k8, I could test it. What does one have to do exactly to hear orca?
I wonder if there is some terminology confusion going on here, i868 means 32-bit, intel or amd or whatever. And AMD64 means 64-bit, intel or amd or whatever. It's named so because of historical reasons, amd just got there first. This is a common source of errors.
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On the Trisquel 6 releases, all you need to do is start the live cd, and
wait about 40 seconds; orca will start, if user does nothing.
I put http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_6.0-20130203_i686.iso on a usb stick and booted off it
and indeed only a plop was heard. Pressing the arrow keys gave more plops.
The grub menu was shown for the 30 second delay and booted to the gdm login screen which was strange. I was expecting auto login. At this point a plop sounded. I tried logging in but the screen did not change, it didn't say wrong credentials but it wouldn't log in either. Just showed the loading cursor, forever.
At this point I went to VT1 (ctrl+alt+f1) and shut down gdm with sudo service gdm stop and restarted it with sudo service gdm start. Now going back to GDM (ctrl+alt-f7) orca was there and talked to me...
This could be a hardware issue all right but I doubt it depends on the processor vendor. I can believe this would have been impossible to a blind person to navigate, heck it would have been impossible to most seeing people!
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Thanks for the test and the alert! My netbook still has the December 1,
2012 release, though with all updates applied. As I write this, I'm
downloading the Feb 3 i686 iso image, and will test from flash drive.
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Thanks for testing!
I tried the February x86 build I use on the netbook for all things. It
works as it should. anyone willing to test
devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_6.0-20130203_i686.iso
Cheers,
Dave H.
On 02/05/2013 02:45 AM, name at domain wrote:
> I put
> http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_6.0-20130203_i686.iso on
> a usb stick and booted off it
>
> and indeed only a plop was heard. Pressing the arrow keys gave more plops.
>
> The grub menu was shown for the 30 second delay and booted to the gdm
> login screen which was strange. I was expecting auto login. At this
> point a plop sounded. I tried logging in but the screen did not change,
> it didn't say wrong credentials but it wouldn't log in either. Just
> showed the loading cursor, forever.
>
> At this point I went to VT1 (ctrl+alt+f1) and shut down gdm with sudo
> service gdm stop and restarted it with sudo service gdm start. Now going
> back to GDM (ctrl+alt-f7) orca was there and talked to me...
>
> This could be a hardware issue all right but I doubt it depends on the
> processor vendor. I can believe this would have been impossible to a
> blind person to navigate, heck it would have been impossible to most
> seeing people!
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