Installing Ubuntu on an AMD HP Laptop

Sat Jul 21 20:56:31 UTC 2018

Hello,
With a little extra help from my iPhone's camera, I figured out that 
pressing alt-windows-S will bring up Orca. I tried using the alt-F2 and 
typing Orca, but it said, screen reader on. Desktop frame, screen reader 
off. Fortunately, I got it to work.
Near the end of the installation process, I had a little bit of trouble 
determining which /dev/sda partition type to use. The /dev/sda3 which 
was an ext.4 partition had 968000 MB, I figured this was the partition 
Windows and other files was. I went and changed the partition to mount 
it as root /, and I told it not to format the partition. Still, I don't 
know if it actually kept Windows or if it deleted it, because when I 
start my computer, Linux comes right up.
Also, I would like to know if there are any other speech synthesisers 
that work with Linux, as I don't want to just use the eSpeak default 
male voice. What is speech system and speech dispatcher? Also, what are 
the dummy and generic synthesisers?
If you can provide me with more information that would be excellent. I 
am just having to get used to getting around the graphical user 
interface for a while until I figure out how to get both Windows and 
Linux running side by side without having to use a virtual machine.
-Harmony
On 07/19/2018 03:26 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> In earlier versions of Ubuntu drums would play when it was ready
> for a login.  Maybe a way around this would be for espeak to run
> in command line environment to get a log in and then perhaps a
> user could run startx to bring up a graphical display and
> perhaps start orca.  You could also try orca -s after keying in
> alt-f2 or alternatively orca -r to replace whatever is running
> and start orca again from scratch.
>
> discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:11:46
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu on an AMD HP Laptop
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried this already but I didn't hear anything. Will it work regardless
>> of what sound drivers I have? I know that Narrator works just fine when
>> I boot from media using control Windows Enter.
>>
>> -Harmony
>>
>>
>> On 18/07/2018 14:35, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> yes it comes with orca.  Try windowskey-s a few minutes after you start
>>> the computer.  You should need to do this only once.  After that, when
>>> you boot you'll have speech.
>>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Linux for blind general
>>> discussion wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:37:08
>>>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "blinux-list at redhat.com" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>>> Subject: Installing Ubuntu on an AMD HP Laptop
>>>>
>>>> Hello, everyone.
>>>>
>>>> I decided to try installing a Linux distro after my Windows 10 image
>>>> started malfunctioning. I didn't want to have to lose all my data, so I
>>>> wanted to see if using Linux would allow me to access all of my files
>>>> and put them on an external hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded Ubuntu 18.04 Iso and the Rufus utility. I put the Iso image
>>>> on my flash drive using this utility.
>>>>
>>>>    From past experience with an AMD HP computer, i found that pressing the
>>>> escape key immediately after turning on the computer, and then pressing
>>>> F9 would bring me to the list of boot options. From here I pressed down
>>>> arrow to select USB media, and pressed enter. At this point I don't know
>>>> what happened next because I don't know if Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit AMD comes
>>>> with any screen reader, or what the commands would be to launch it. I
>>>> used the Microsoft seeing AI app to read what was on the screen.
>>>>
>>>> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> -Heavenly Harmony
>>>>
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