From what I remember, Ubuntu in this case is better than a pure Debian, if you
need the graphics. If you don't: Debian has much more to offer to me as a blnd
user and it's more stable. :-)
Best wishes
Julien
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Sorry for the haste!
Ubuntu seems to be a good alternative. I certainly have seen it mentioned a
couple of times on the Orca mailinglist.
Warm regards
Julien
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Hi!
Harsh words Ralf. :-)
OK, I never installed Debian myself using the install disks. But a friend
did it. Debian does support blidn users. I don't know about the graphical
install exactly, since we prefer the text based version. But I think they
might. There is an Orca package for Debian
Hey again!
Not sure about Ubuntu studio, it depends on how much it is based on Ubuntu.
Can't you stack up on the special Ubuntu Studio packages, once you've
installed a normal Ubuntu? I have the feeling, that a friend of mine recently
did so.
Regards
Julien
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Hello everyone!
I tried to unsubscribe my current account and couldn't manage, since it
always seemed to involve sending a confirmation from my subscribed mail
adress. We had some canges here, so I can still eceive mail, but I can't log
into the old account, still I'd like to change that once
Lisi!
Let me hazard a guess, since I've come across a few of their audiobooks,
before they started this DRM protection; They just convince in numbers! I
think - this is just supposition - they buy from other companies and just make
the digital versions of the audiobooks and collect them in on
Hi Weaver!
I have tried lynx, links, links2, elinks and w3m. I work with those
exclusively. I still mostly stick by lynx, but that is just laziness, since it
really doesn't do a few things.
I have found, that from the above collection elinks is the best. It can be
customised to meet almost
Hello Keith and Johann!
Links2 in the current version no longer supports javascript. As far as I
remember, they removed it due to neglected maintenance or they wanted to
change something, which never came of. It was some sort of development reason.
Older version do handle a bit of javascript
Hi Lina!
Could be, that I gave you the same youtube or mplayer advise, because to me
it has always been a sane and helpful one. :-)
Kind regards
Julien
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Lina!
Does youtube support upload in aa-format?
This would be cool, since you might use youtube-dl (a python script) to
download it again and then you can use mplayer to transcode it:
mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:file=my_name.wav
youtube.whatever_video_format
then you could easily co
Hi bob!
Hm, audible might have 95% of the downloadable audiobook market, but you can
still get more than enough CDs and tapes, which is mostly allright. In any
case: I always found audible's quality inferior, to put it mildly. I haven't
listened to anything very recent though, because of thei
Hi Sian!
I don't know, which codec .aa will be exactly, but you might want to try
mplayer, esepcially with the codecs pakc, which is available from their site
at:
http://mplayerhq.hu
You won't probably find it in Debian, because there are some non-opensource
codecs in that. It's legal, but
Hi chaps!
Yes, I can definitely say, that there are spam problems on other lists. Less
perhaps - visible tothe user at least -, but they do exist andI still think,
it'snot that bad, considering, how open this list is to users.
Good job you folks!
Byebye
Julien
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Hello Arun!
Sometimes in laptops, the microphone might be coupled with line-in. Have you
had any mic luck under Linux with this laptop? You might have a look in
alsamixer or alsamixergui for line-in settings as well and you might test it,
by plugging in an external mic, or if it's switched, y
Hello Emil!
I assume, that you mainly work with a GUI (Gnome or similar). So these
desktops usually use some sort of sound server (ESD or PulseAudio or Arts).
Especially PulseAudio has been known - of late - to generate some problems. So
the question is: does ps -ax (or some graphical tool to
Hi!
I think, you could write a script for this. Using perhaps ping, to just see,
if the server responds or wget to download a certain file. I'm not sure though
about their timeouts. I think you can set a tieout with wget. Then you could
use mail to send an e-mail.
I suppose, tat there might
Hello Andrei!
Thanks, I'l definitely consider it. Much better than to go back. :-)
Knd regards
Julien
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Hi bob!
I'm sorry, I see, that I wrote rather without context, besides I expressed
myself unclearly.
Yes, we are talking about Gnome-Orca. Why do I "have to upgrade"? The new
Orca version has a lot of fixes for problems, which are there in the old
version. These fixes will allow to use much
Hello!
Thanks bob and Aidan!
OK, I do understand now, why downgrading wouldn't be possible.
So let's talk about Orca. :-) I found, that Orca is no longer available in
wheezy and an installation of Squeeze's GNOME+Orca reulted in a lot of
problems, which I could understand before. Still, th
Hello everyone!
I just wondered, if it would be possible to downgrade my Debian distro from
- say - Wheezy to Squeeze? I thought, that it must work, but I can't for the
life of me think, which exact command to use.
Thanks for any help!
Warm regards
Julien
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Hi Lina!
This is usually a sign of holding your hand wrong. You might try slightly
different positions at your desk. Slide your keyboard closer, try putting your
chair up or down, see if you can rest your hand on something slightly, while
writing. I tend to get handaches, when I'm reading for
Hello!
Yes I am sure about the main branch. One of the main ideas of Debian was to
be a distribution of free-software only. I don't know, if they already
introduced the non-free branch with the first version, but that's precisely,
why it is there as a seperate branch, to make sure, that peopl
Hi!
Yes you can exclude all non-free software. If you install Debian, I don't
know, where it will be, but I'm very sure, that excluding non-free software is
the default. Later on you can decide, what you want. You can always edit
/etc/apt/sources/list
There you might see lines - roughly - l
Hi Sthu!
You can also use sndfile-resample from the samplerate-programs. If you don't
mind building a smal app from source, there's also Fons Adriaensen's resample
program, which I think is currently hosted on linuxaudio.org. It's advantage,
it is faster.
I think sox might also do it, but I
Hello again!
OK, the connection works fine now. I heard, that it was at time a little
unstable and it could be better to start skype first by hand. Now I must
figure out how to make calls, instead of texting. :-)
Warm regards
Julien
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Hello everyone!
This is perhaps not completely Debian, but I still need help on this. I
installed Pidgin-skype and even mannaged to setup the account with some help.
I can't use original Skype, since I'mblind and need Orca. I already needed
some help for the one QT-dialog, that popped up, whi
Hello Marc!
I believe your problem *shoud(TM)* be fixed by not purging but removing:
aptitude remove squeezeboxserver
or:
dpkg remove squeezeboxserver
Not sure if the remove option is exactly the same for dpkg, but it should be
and otherwise that could be easy to find out from the manpage. -
i Rick1
I think the GNOME network-manager is simply designer to cater to all needs
of network. So wpa_supplicant would simply be a dependence, so the GUI can
really configure everything, that it says. If you remove wpa_supplicant and
also remove the other two packages, you you won't be able t
Hello Keitho!
The Intel soundcards are known, to sometmes generate problems, because
they're not all supported yet. This architecture - if I remember correctly -
wraps up an assortment of chips. Were you able to get sound on your laptop
under Linux before? Are you able to get sound from a GUI
Hello Sheela!
It semms, that there is no Debian 4.0 available anymore. What is your
pci-board? Couldn't you find an old kernel, that supports it? Hm usually the
kernel doesn't loose many things over time.
Kind regards
Julien
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Hello!
There is quvi, it can access a few portals besides youtube. You could write
a script and use grep/sed/awk to search throuh its output for the right line,
showing the actual URL of the mediafile/stream. Then you could pipe that to
mplaer. The only problem I saw - even with elinks - was,
Hi!
You can usually start on games, if you don't use them. I didn't follow your
earlier thread, so I hope I don't suggest anything, which already has been
said.
You can use:
dpkg -l | less
To see all installed packages. If you uninstall packages using either
aptitude remove or synaptic,
Hello Mitchell!
If your problem couldn't be solved by Johann's script, then it really is a
misconfiguration of PulseAudio. Don't go looking for ALSA. As far as I know,
there might still be the alsaconf script somewhere. But it usually should just
work. I can't really say today, because I alwa
Hello Mitchell!
You still have ALSA. I don't know, when you last looked through your kernel
modules, but I never had a module named ALSA. The snd and soundcore modules
are what you need.
When you say speaker-test, of which speaker-test are we talking?
To me the whole problem looks to be a
Hello everyone!
Is there an Orca user on here? I would have a few questions to get me
started. I've read the orca docs on gnome.org and with that a few of the basic
gnome docs, but they aren't toohelpful. So hjere are my questions:
1. Is there a nice guide to using GNOME as such efficiently? M
Hello Camaleon!
Oh, sorryof course. These are the only two stanzas in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf
to get my keyboard working:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Co
Hello Camaleon!
I've got it fixed, finally! :-) I googled some more on the side and found a
guide from gentoo. I ended up just copying another stanza from an example
xorg.conf and now it works!
Thanks for al the help, it was very valuable to me.
Kind regards
Julien
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Hello Camaleon!
I mean, the moment X starts, the keyboard doesn't respond at all. the
keyboard as such is nicely connected and everything.
Here's the output from the filtered package list:
# dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-input
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.3.2-6
Hi Camaleon!
When I say, tha I have no keyboard, I meant no keyboard for the whole
system. I have to press the power button. Orca doesn't start. The first time
you have to put something in a config-file or just start Orca with alt+F2 for
exec command and then use Orca's menus or whatever to m
Hello everyone1
First: I'm new here, but a longterm Linux user. No experience however with
any GUI, I'm blind.
So I installed X and Gnome to test Orca - screenreader again. When I start X
no more keyboard action. The system continues running flawlessly, had a music
player running. Had a loo
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