[Testers wanted before the official release] Slint64-4.2.1 release candidate is accessible.

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue Oct 10 19:47:28 UTC 2017


the /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc file points directly at the slint 
repository so was not necessary to modify to get home repository's 
package updates and upgrades.  I'm noticing espeak running with a tiny 
bit of keyboard latency and I will need to increase the sound volume 
slightly but other than that no problems.  I generated an ssh key pair 
on the slint system and after connecting to panix.com am using slint to 
write this email message.  Next I test the graphical stuff out a little 
more since I did very little while up there earlier.  I will test 
firefox and will search available packages for another browser and see 
what success I have installing that one.  When google-chrome is 
available I can usually get that talking.

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 07:49:53
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Testers wanted before the official release] Slint64-4.2.1
>     release candidate is accessible.
> 
> Hello,
> thanks for testing.
>
> Le 09/10/2017 ? 01:20, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit :
>> I have this version of slint installed and talking in console mode so
>> far.
>
> Good. Please report any issue.
>
>> I'll test the graphical user interface after doing some 
>> post-install and getting slapt-get up and working.
>> I need to testnetwork connection too. 
>
> Well, indeed slapt-get's usage needs an active network connection.
> Assuming a wired one, NetworkManager should work out of the box.
> For a wireless one, I have only used the GUI applet yet, will try the
> other tools to figure out which are accessible. But maybe you already
> know that. 
> 
> Then, for slapt-get to work with the right sources of packages you need
> to tentatively edit as root the file /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
> modifying this line:
> SOURCE=http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2/:PREFERRED
> so it become
> SOURCE=http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2/:PREFERRED
> This is because Slint64-14.2.1 being not yet officially released its
> packages are in a specific repository for at the moment.
>
> Then just type as root:
> slapt-get --add-keys
> slapt-get -u # or slapt-get --update
>
>> From time to time, run:
> slapt-get -u
> slapt-get --upgrade
> the update notification icon of then panel being probably not
> accessible. As usual to know more:
> man slapt-get 
>
>> With slint, the dvd runs once installed for a while then stops.
>> I hit enter once then slint found my speakers and in a little bit
>> started talking.
>
> Do you mean that when the bootloader is ready (after having rebooted
> with the DVD inserted) you don't hear a beep? Maybe you machine doesn't
> provide the "beep"?
>
>> Once it was installed with lilo, I had to hit enter after boot for the
>> system to come up and start talking.  This is for those that never
>> installed a slackware system before so you know to not give up at
>> those apparent stop points.
>
> Yes, by default the system starts after a 2 minute delay unless set
> otherwise in /etc/lilo.conf (and if EFI is used there is no time out at
> all so pressing [Enter] is mandatory to boot).
>
> Maybe I should reduce this delay when using lilo to 10 or 15 seconds? 
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. I will mention that in this file:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/ACCESSIBILITY
>
> Great having accessible slackware back and more accessible than original
> slackware ended up being since slint works with sound cards for speech.
>
> Thanks for the encouragement and please give feedback about speech
> in graphical environments when you can.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier Spaier
>
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