Ubuntu live CD

[John Heim]

The key sequence to get orca started is F5, 3, <enter>, <enter>

If you have any vision at all, you'll be able to see a white box pop up when 
you press F5. Then you'll know you timed it right. It takes a really, really 
long time to boot.    Be patient.

PS: I think you need 512 Mb of RAM for ubuntu with orca to work. A while 
ago, on the orca list we had a conversation about RAM and it seemed as if 
384 wasn't enough but 512 was. But this is anecdotal evidence so take it for 
what it's worth.

PPS: There is an orca support list. It's very active.  The subscription info 
from a message on the list:
List-Subscribe: <http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list>,
 <mailto:orca-list-request at gnome.org?subject=subscribe>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Dalton" <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu live CD


> On 16/10/2007 1:37 PM, Rick wrote:
>> Can somebody please tell me which version of Ubuntu orca will work from 
>> the live CD?
>
> The latest? I think 6 doesn't have orca.
> I know the vm image (704 desktop) has orca.
>
> To get it running on the live cd I think you need to hit f5 and arrow down 
> 3 times and hit enter.
> When the disk starts to spin up.
> But not sure.
> Someone told me that on an irc channel.
>
>> I tried Ubuntu 7.04 and I configured orca and it said "switching to focus 
>> tracking." or something like that.
>> I forget exactly.
>
> Personally I think orca has a long way to go before it is accessible. I 
> tried out the vm and didn't like the support very much.
> Maybe that's because I was sharing 512 mb of ram with xp and ubuntu but it 
> would read the directory browser fine.
> But I couldn't seem to use open office and fire fox easily.
>
> So I will try out fedora (console) and see if that is any better.
> Try it out and see how you like it. I am sure it is getting better but it 
> will just take time.
>
>> Then I tried ubuntu 6.10, I got it to boot, I then hit alt plus F2 and 
>> typed in orca after waiting a few seconds but no speech.
>> I looked at beta 7.10 but it says you need 320 megabites of ram to 
>> install from the CD and my machine only has 256.
>> I want to try a live CD first to decide if Linux is for me.
>> If I like what I see I got 122 gigabites of free space on this hard drive 
>> I want to use for Linux.
>
> Hmm do you really press alt f2 for the livecd? I know you do for the vm 
> one. But someone on irc said f5 when booting.
> Then arrow down 3 times then enter.
> Maybe version 6 doesn't come with orca?
>
>>> From what I read ubuntu sounds like it would be the easiest distro to 
>>> get up
>> and running for a beginner.
>> If there is something easier to work with and has a live CD I can check 
>> out I'd be interested in hearing about it,  but as it stands I'd really 
>> like to try ubuntu.
>
> I think it is but not sure about accessibility.
> (I didn't like it) But that doesn't mean it isn't accessible.
> I would be interested to see what you think.
> Maybe I didn't read the manual enough.
> Anyway let me know how you go.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -- Daniel Dalton
>
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
> daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com
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