Oh, I forgot you were trying this on a Power PC (PCP). The arch stuff
is mainly Intel style processors as far as I can tell. On those
platforms, Arch is great.
Another thought concerning machines with so little memory, I would try
and stick to the native text console as much as possible as that will
work on machines with as little as 32 MB of memory. I have an old
laptop here with just that and the text console works fine but I
wouldn't think for a minute of attempting to run gnome on that.
That's one deal where Slackware really shines; it can run on almost a
shoe string.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:26:37AM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote:
> Steve,
> last I heard, there wasn't a lot of support in arch for PPC and virtually nothing for the blind ppc user in particular. I went ubuntu 10.10 PPC here. it took getting some assistance via Skype (and my webcam) with the guy on the far end being my eyes, but we got it up and working with orca. there are still a few issues with that machine. after a random amount of time, the udisks-daemon would go into runaway and the machine would become increasingly unresponsive (causing orca to get equally as unresponsive). doing a sudo reboot under those conditions is very trying. I have to have faith that I typed in the command properly and then wait for the beep indicating success.
>
> I am not sure what causes this problem. I have mitigated it somewhat by use of the noacpi flag in the yaboot.conf file. it still happens, only it takes a little longer. I will also have to look up what commands I have on startup that I can dispense with (120 processes on a machine with 384 MB of ram is a bit much).
>
> anyway, its up and running (mostly).
>
> -Eric
>
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > I'm a big fan of Arch Linux. Go to www.archlinux.org and look around
> > in the wiki for archlinux for the blind or something like that. Chris
> > Brannon has developed a talking boot image with speech at the text
> > console. From there, one can install gnome, gnome-extra to get Orca
> > going. Sorry, I don't have the exact URL right now but can look this
> > up later on tomorrow if you're more interested.
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:23:06AM -0700, Stephen wrote:
> >> Not sure how it will go for install bit gentoo has a massive application
> >> repo and a solid pox build. And since they build from source its very cross
> >> arch friendly.
> >>
> >> I would also look at the recent Ubuntu as they might have some easy things
> >> built
> >> On Oct 22, 2010 11:33 PM, "Technomage Hawke" <technomage.hawke@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> well,
> >>> I finally got with the program and went imap on my mac. this means I don't
> >> need to store any messages locally.it also means I can check my mail from
> >> other locations using my powerbook.
> >>>
> >>> speaking of which, I may need some sighted help getting a workable image
> >> for a talking linux on that machine. Adriane knoppix looks good, except all
> >> my testing lead to crashes under a VM on the big mac.
> >>>
> >>> this could be a problem in virtualbox.
> >>>
> >>> also, I think I am going to take my old windows machine, and convert it
> >> over to linux. I was waiting for Voc Rehab to get off their collective butts
> >> and do something about getting me some adaptive technology. but it looks
> >> like its going to take a while. besides adriane knoppix, any other good
> >> talking linux distress anyone can think of? I keep getting too many useless
> >> hits in google and its maddeningly slow using speech.
> >>>
> >>> -Eric
> >>>
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