Re: [Support] [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy
Sadly I didnt' have these problems after installing. everything worked
fine for me on both versions. Oh also I forgot to let people know that
firefox and thunderbird are installed.
On 12/26/2012 10:57 AM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
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> I gave the Sid version a spin, and find that it is the expected GNOME
> 3.4.2 experience, with speech and audio starting at boot-up; very
> nice! The volume and mute toggle shortcuts work, though I'd move them
> in an installation to hard drive. My wifi would not connect to any of
> the networks, though about 10 get listed in the menus; I tried one
> secured and one open. For the secured, I was never prompted for the
> key; the open just didn't connect. When exploring the GNOME control
> center with the arrow keys, I found that I could not interrupt Orca's
> speech. I plan to play with this a little more on a wired network
> connection.
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> Dave H.
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> On 12/23/2012 09:04 AM, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
>> Hello list,
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>> There is a new version of Sonar now based off of Debian-Wheezy and also
>> Debian-Sid. I only made the 32 bit version but they are both using a pae
>> kernel so it will notice ore than 4 GB. Of ram. Here is a link to the
>> download.
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>> Also below are instructions for installing the sonar based Debian the
>> install is accessible but some of the fields don't read what you are
>> filling in or what you are saying yes or no to. I will have these
>> instructions on the sonar-project.org website at some point today.
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>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/
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>> Before you start the install you will want to start the orca preferences
>> and choose your keyboard layout.
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>> Now press the windows key and type in the word live. This will bring up
>> the installer.
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>> Then it says that the installer itself will use english and you choose
>> yes or no. After you tab to yes then press the spacebar.
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>> Next you will choose extra locals to be installed. If you just want 1
>> language installed you can just press tab to next and press the
>> spacebar.
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>> After this you will choose the default local for the installation. Arrow
>> through the choices and then tab to next and press the spacebar.
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>> Now you will configure the keyboard configuaration. If you are using a
>> u.s. Keyboard you can press tab to next and then press the spacebar.
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>> Next is setting up the keyboard layout. The default is u.s. Again if you
>> are using a u.s. Keyboard you can press tab and then the spacebar.
>> During this point of the installer you will have the option to set up
>> the kill x by pressing control, Alt and backspace. You will see this
>> option as you are tabbing through the menu. If you would like this
>> option just press the spacebar to check the box.
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>> Next is creating your partition. Here it says if you already have your
>> partition set up you can press quit and you will quit gparted. Or if you
>> don't have any partitions set up yet you can press continue to open
>> gparted and start your partitioning.
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>> You will arrow down and it will show your HDD. Here you will press enter
>> to choose your HDD.
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>> Now you will arrow donw and it will show 3 partitions if you already
>> have been running a Gnu/Linux operating system. The first partition
>> should be the largest and this is the one you will want to format. Here
>> you will right click on this and arrow down to format. Press the right
>> arrow over and select the file system you would like to format your
>> partiton in. I recommend either x3 or x4. Now press enter to choose your
>> file format. Then tab or arrow until you see apply and press the
>> spacebar. Then it will ask if you are sure that you want to format and
>> press apply again to continue. This will take a few moments to format
>> your HDD.
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>> After formatting you will want to tab and then press close. Now press
>> control q to quit gparted.
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>> Arrow down until you see your hDD which will be labeled as sda.
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>> Arrow down again and Then you will choose sda again.
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>> Arrow down and Here you will choose your file system again either choose
>> x3 or x4 and press the spacebar.
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>> You will arrown down and it will ask if you want root on home partition
>> this is the only choice so press the spacebar.
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>> Here the first text box is to enter your root passward.
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>> The next text box is to reenter your root password.
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>> Next is to choose the full username.
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>> Now you will choose the name of the user to create.
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>> Here enter the password for the user it must be different from the root
>> password.
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>> You will enter your username password again here.
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>> The last text box is to choose the host name of the computer.
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>> Now it will be asking where do you want to place the master boot record.
>> It is set to mbr by default. Then you can press the spacebar.
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>> Now it says that your system clock is set to your local time. Answering
>> no will set it to UTC. So choose yes or no and then press enter.
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>> Now you will arrow throught the time zones and choose one and then press
>> the spacebar.
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>> It will ask if you want to continue and you will press yes or no with
>> the arrow key and then press the spacebar on your choice.
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>> The manual is at
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