ubuntu mait help

[Cheryl Homiak]

Oh yeah! It was always relatively easy to do on the old powerpc mac minis but rather a pain on the newer Intel ones which was kind of ironic. But for Jessie they had a special cd that booted on the intel Mac mini without one having to do anything special to the Mac as had been the case in the past and I hope they keep on doing that. I wasn't sure if the live cd would boot on my 2007 Intel mac mini but it did; haven't tried it on the older powerpc one yet. But it makes sense that command would be analogous to the windows key in some cases because when I ran vmware fusion on my mac that used command for the Windows key on my Mac keyboard if i remember correctly.

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:09 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona <hank.smith966 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I didn't know you could even install linux on to mac mini's
> Hank
> 
> 
> On 9/11/2015 8:56 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>> Okay I've learned my new thing for the day :-)
>> 
>> I was booting it on an old intel mac mini that actually has debian on it but I'm not using orca on it now. I actually did get it to boot and I did discover that command-option-s got me screen reader is turned on" and "off". I'll probably play with it more later.
>> 
>>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Super+alt+s means hold down the super key, the alt key and the s key all at the same time. The super key is also known as the Windows key.
>>> 
>>> On 09/11/2015 08:09 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>>>> Hmmm, maybe I was confused about the installer you are using or perhaps
>>>> what I found was too old. In looking at debian accessibility there is
>>>> reference to the gnome live cd and it does talk about starting orca. I'm
>>>> pasting what it says (can't figure out what super-alt-s is!) and paste
>>>> the link.
>>>> 
>>>> The gnome liveCD has screen reader support. At the boot menu, one has to
>>>> type enter (TODO: add beep). Then the desktop launches up (TODO: add
>>>> beep), and one can press super-alt-s to start Orca.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com
>>>>> <mailto:cah4110 at icloud.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, I went looking for this, partly because it seems you've gotten
>>>>> no answer and partly because I have a frustrating situation with two
>>>>> old computers with different wifi cards that can respond to a scan but
>>>>> don't connect. I was thinking about trying the live cd in them to see
>>>>> whether that would do wifi for either of these machines but frankly
>>>>> this link below looks rather confusing so I don't know whether or not
>>>>> I'll try it. I imagine you have already read this so it's probably not
>>>>> helpful but it's all I've found so far.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility/doc/StartGuide
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cheryl
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sep 10, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
>>>>>> <hank.smith966 at gmail.com <mailto:hank.smith966 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> xHello when launching the live cd
>>>>>> when the drum sounds what is the proper command to turn orca on?
>>>>>> tried control s
>>>>>> tried
>>>>>> alt control s
>>>>>> also tried alt windows s
>>>>>> nothing will turn it on.
>>>>>> is there a trick to getthing this talking?
>>>>>> I want to give ubuntu a try
>>>>>> I gave up on sonar for the moment.
>>>>>> Hank
>>>>>> 
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