Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 57, Issue 14

Sun Aug 15 18:43:51 UTC 2010

John answered my general concerns about updates starting without
notifying you. I rrealize, looking back, that my original question was
too vague. I suspect the answer to it is "no", but let me rephrase the
question. Is it possible to limit the scope of updates such that updates
can occur as long as they do not cause kernel 2.x to be replaced by
kernel 2.(x+1)?
Obviously, if I can refuse all updates, I avoid the kernel being
promoted. This is what I had in mind by putting a lock on the kernel.
I think such a lock or scoping limit on updates could be useful, but I
am always ready to be enlightened.

Michael Cross 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Meetings (kinouchou)
   2. speech dispatcher as system service on ubuntu maverick (mk360)
   3. Question about Kernels (Michael Cross)
   4. Re: Question about Kernels (Jon)
   5. Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu (Maurice McCarthy)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:40:19 +0200
From: kinouchou <kinouchou at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Meetings
To: Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
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it's ok for me

kinouchou

2010/8/13 Luke Yelavich <themuso at ubuntu.com>

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:48:57AM EST, Penelope Stowe wrote:
> > I apologize for not being good at getting logs up after meetings, 
> > but the meeting logs from the last meeting are up at 
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingLogs/20100630
> >
> > Our next meeting will be Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 21:00 UTC.
> >
> > If no one has any major complaints, I'd like to propose that 
> > meetings be the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 21:00 UTC.
>
> This works for me.
>
> Luke
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:37:19 -0400
From: mk360 <mk.seventhson at gmail.com>
Subject: speech dispatcher as system service on ubuntu maverick
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	Hi,

Apparently in maverick the mode for set pulse to work as a system was 
changed, and becouse of that I can't configure spd to work as a system 
service (well, spd is configured, but it doesn't speak in the console or

speaks when I start gnome) so how can I set pulse and configure spd?.

Please, it is important becouse maverick is alfa so orca or gnome, or 
etc are unstable, and I need the console to work/restore the system...

	Regards,
mk.

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:24:27 -0500
From: "Michael Cross" <michaelrcross66 at austin.rr.com>
Subject: Question about Kernels
To: <Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
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I recently got Vinux 3 installed on Ubuntu 10. After making some
adjustments such as disabling screen savers and setting sleep and hybrid
modes to "never", everything seems to be working well. I am worried
about Ubuntu updates. I do not know how disruptive they are to
accessibility. Is there a way to put a lock on the kernel you currently
have? I want to avoid being updated to a more aggressive, less stable
kernel. I do not want to be constantly recovering from problems caused
by updates. Please recommend a conservative update strategy. For
instance, how do I disable automatic updates? I would prefer to be
notified that updates are available, but not be forced to install them
until I am ready. Any advice will be much appreciated.

Michael Cross 

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:04:26 +0100
From: Jon <j.orcauser at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Question about Kernels
To: Michael Cross <michaelrcross66 at austin.rr.com>
Cc: Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
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As far as i know, no updates are performed without your explicit 
agreement, so you should not have any issues there.

Maybe vinux has changed the default and turned on critical updates, but 
thats probably better answered by the vinux people.

Hope this helps.

-Jon
On Sxat 14/08/2010 at 16:24:27, Michael Cross wrote:
> I recently got Vinux 3 installed on Ubuntu 10. After making some 
> adjustments such as disabling screen savers and setting sleep and 
> hybrid modes to "never", everything seems to be working well. I am 
> worried about Ubuntu updates. I do not know how disruptive they are to

> accessibility. Is there a way to put a lock on the kernel you 
> currently have? I want to avoid being updated to a more aggressive, 
> less stable kernel. I do not want to be constantly recovering from 
> problems caused by updates. Please recommend a conservative update 
> strategy. For instance, how do I disable automatic updates? I would 
> prefer to be notified that updates are available, but not be forced to

> install them until I am ready. Any advice will be much appreciated.
> 
> Michael Cross
> 
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:41:33 +0100
From: Maurice McCarthy <manselton at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
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Steve,

Sorry I didn't notice that I'd replied to you personally instead of to
the list. And I'm even more sorry that I'm now stumped as to what the
answer might be. For sound output I have Altec Lansing speakers. The
volume has to be physically turned up on a knob but usually I use a
head set to avoid disturbing my wife. The headset has to be selected
in

System - Preferences - Sound - Output

and the volume set. I installed festival and ran a --tts command and
yet it played through the speakers. I presume this means that it
bypasses the pulse audio system.

It is a shot in the dark but have you tried running the command

$ sudo restorespeech ?

I'm trying to attach the script here. It comes with Vinux 3 but I
don't think it is part of the normal Ubuntu 10.04. Put a copy in
/usr/bin/ and chmod 0766 to use it. Parts of the script call programs
requiring root privileges to run. However, as you already have sound a
root then it may not work.

Good Luck
Maurice

On 14 August 2010 23:26, Stephen S. Disbrow <info at disbrows.us> wrote:
> Maurice,
> ? I did use --tts. Also I forgot to note that if I run this as my user
steve
> I do get an error on /dev/dsp which is something like no perms. I
tried it
> as root, and didn't get this error, but still no sound. I also changed
> /dev/dsp to 666 and than no error as steve, but still no sound.
> Thanks,
>
> Steve D.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice McCarthy"
<manselton at gmail.com>
> To: "Stephen S. Disbrow" <info at disbrows.us>
> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu
>
>
> Steve
>
> The last argument should be --tts
> That is a double dash and not a single one.
>
> Best Wishes
> Maurice
>
> On 13 August 2010 15:33, Stephen S. Disbrow <info at disbrows.us> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I installed festival tts in ubuntu 10.4, but when I try to test it by
>> doing echo "\"hello world\"" | festival -tts I get no errors, but I
don't
>> hear any sound what might I need to to do to make it work?.
>>
>> I also installed a bunch of recommended packages such as nas, and
>> audiooss,
>> but I removed them alThanks
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
>
>

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