Notebooks and Distros

[John Heim]

What is this jaws thing you speak of?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Notebooks and Distros


> would a dell inspirn 1501 work ok with jaws?
> Josh
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Keenan" <tkeenan79 at gmail.com>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Notebooks and Distros
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>> On Feisty, I didn't even get to any kind of environment.  The CD only 
>> spun for about 5 seconds after I selected Orca on the boot options screen 
>> and continued booting.
>> On Edgy, it actually booted almost completely, but apparently it couldn't 
>> start x-Windows.  It said something like "unable to start x-server. 
>> Gnome is possibly misconfigured." then something about video.
>> My system uses a Ge-Force 8400 chip which is fairly new, that's probably 
>> why.
>> Right now, barring some new info about this laptop, it's looking like I 
>> might go with a Dell Inspiron 1501, which is the type with an AMD chip. 
>> I've been reading on linux-laptops.net that it works well.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> John Heim wrote:
>>> So just to be clear, you tried to boot from the ubuntu live CD and tried 
>>> to get it to run orca? One thing you might try is to see if it will boot 
>>> without speech. You can start speech after it boots into graphics mode. 
>>> I don't know the exact key sequence but it's on the ubuntu web site. 
>>> It's something like F2 to open a  run-command window, 
>>> type'gnome-terminal', that opens a command window. Then you type 'su -' 
>>> to become root. Then you run orca by typeing 'orca'.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Keenan" <tkeenan79 at gmail.com>
>>> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:04 AM
>>> Subject: Notebooks and Distros
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> First off, if there's a better spot to ask this, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> I just tried to install the Ubuntu Feisty Live CD without sighted 
>>>> assistance on my Asus notebook.
>>>> I got a few seconds passed the accessibility selection and it stopped 
>>>> cold.  Someone told me the screen was completely blank.
>>>> Hah, did I hink that was going to be easy?  Apparently Ubuntu doesn't 
>>>> work well with Asus notebooks, especially the sound.
>>>>   Does anyone know of notebooks that work particularly well with a 
>>>> certain flavor of Linux, preferably one that's not too cumbersome to 
>>>> set up?
>>>>
>>>>  I just bought this notebook a week ago, so it's not too late to return 
>>>> it.  Of course, I'd rather keep it if possible.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, all.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Tim
>>>>
>>>>
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