[raspberry-vi] Re: Introducing myself Gena
- From: Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:59:45 +0100
Hello Gina,
I'm sorry I think I got your callsign wrong, got the B and the P the
wrong way round.
I never worry about people calling me a geek. The same sort of people
who do that would probably call Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and
Charles Babbage geeks. Not that I presume to sit in the same circle as
those guys.
The accessible Arch image seems to work ok, and as well as SpeakUp it
has Emacspeak running on it, which, with a bit of a learning curve gives
us a 'complete audio desktop', albeit a non-graphical one.
There are issues with Broadcom sound drivers and Pi firmware which have
made it necessary to 'freeze' updates of those and the alsa-utils
package at before April 25th to keep SpeakUp working. These are added to
pacman.conf so if you run an upgrade they will be excluded.
There is also some issue currently with any Pi which has the 'Hynix' RAM
chip instead of Samsung. These are Pi boards manufactured by RS.
I'm currently trying to fix that. But it sounds like yours must be a
Samsung chipped board if Arch is working without freezing.
This list can be a bit quiet at times, with sudden bursts of activity.
All of us would be interested in what you have planned for your Pi.
I will add the Mac SSH instructions to the web site when I get a mo. In
fact I intend to review quite a few of the pages very soon as there has
been no addition for a while.
Mike
On 12/10/2013 22:02, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I guess many of you will have seen my name around GNU Linux and Ham Radio VI
> lists. Well I monitored what you guys were saying about the Pi and thought I
> wouldn't bother as I'd had enough of people calling me a geek etc. Plus I
> simply just have too much stuff.
>
> Well I saw Mike's notice that speakup was running on a Pi, so I was tempted.
> But still resisted until my personal assistant informed me of a raspberry jam
> here in Preston. So I booked his support for that meeting. That was Monday.
> On Tuesday, I got in a taxi to our CPC outlet and got a Pi.
>
> I had found the accessible Arch image and grabbed it. I couldn't wait to have
> the time to play with it.
>
> I firstly, run it with a HDMI cable attached. Not because I have enough sight
> but I'd be able to see if it was doing something and I hoped the sound would
> come through the TV's speakers. But this didn't work. I eventually found a
> pair of headphones and plugged them in and pressed return. I was well
> impressed, I heard that old familiar espeak voice.
>
> I'm not familiar with Arch but I've already installed programs via pacman. I
> intend upon going to the next jam and leaving it hooked up to my jam-box
> playing some music.
>
> Mike, regarding your comment on the site: Using ssh is the same as Linux for
> the Mac. I have run ssh from my Mac to run pacman etc. However, VoiceOver is
> nowhere as good as speakup. I used the ifconfig command on the Pi to
> establish it's IP. Then went to the Mac opened a terminal and entered:
>
> ssh user@192.168.1.9
>
> I was then prompted for the password. I have installed xcode and macports but
> I do believe that ssh is a standard part of OS X.
>
> I have had problems subscribing to this list with my personal domain email
> configuration, so out of frustration used my hotmail address.
>
> 73 to Hams and Regards to the rest. I look forward to contributing and
> learning from you all.
>
> Gena
> Georgina Joyce
> Applied Psychologist
> Training and Coaching.
> Because individuals of groups matter!
>
>
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