Installing ubuntu desktop hopefully Later

[Jude DaShiell]

Did you hit the space bar several times on boot up to get to the 
language selection menu?  You should know, ubuntu has been breaking 
accessibility for orca with some of its version releases and this also 
impacts vinux.  I'm thinking either vinux really is needed as a defense 
against ubuntu accessibility breaks.  That or maybe build a command line 
based system on debian with speakup then download and install gnome from 
gnome.org so you get the latest version with latest version of orca.  
The http://people.debian.org/~Sthibault/ website has isos of debian that 
will get speakup working in command line mode on sound card right out of 
the box too.  Hope this helps.

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	Yesterday, I downloaded ubuntu10.04 and it also comes
> right up but without sound. On this particular hardware, nothing
> has made any sound after 9.10 and I went up to 11.04.
> 
> 	After running the alsa-info test, I can tell that the
> sound card is up, but those who are more expert than I am can
> probably tell more about the status of all the flags and
> registers that alsa-info.sh reports on.
> 
> 	I thought the "simple mixer controls" all seemed set to
> similar values to what they are in ubuntu9.10 so I think the
> problem is that the software that  feeds data to the sound card,
> the actual audio data, is broken.
> 
> 	One of the how-to descriptions for ubuntu10.10 said to
> wait for the "melody" to play after selecting the language about
> 5 minutes after booting the CD. On this system, there has never
> been so much as a click out of the audio port in 10.04, 10.10 or
> 11.04.
> 
> 	The system seems solid on all the later versions except
> for the sound so I think this will be a pleasure to experiment
> with if there is a fix for the sound on this hardware.
> 
> 	I do have an output for hwinfo if anybody can use it as
> I suspect there are other similar systems out there as this one
> is not the least bit exotic.
> 
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