As far as I know, until Mike finishes the speech-dispatcher module for
his library or someone produces an alternative work around for the
broken alsa driver, a USB audio adaptor will be required to get Orca
running properly on the Pi. I don't fully understand how the various
components work together, but as I understand it, speech dispatcher is
the bridge between Orca and the actual sound system, but without a
module for Mike's code, speech-dispatcher can only connect Orca to the
broken alsa driver.
As for flashing the SD card, the options available depend on the OS of
the machine being used to flash the SD card. Under Linux, I use the dd
command and put together the following bash script to simplify things:
#! /bin/bash
if [ -z "$2" ]
then
sudo dd bs=1M of=piTemp.img if=/dev/$1
fi
if [ -e "$2" ]
then
sudo dd bs=1M if="$2" of=/dev/$1
fi
Which takes the device name of the SD card(usually sdb, sdc, sdd, etc.
depending on how many removable drives are connected) as the first
command line argument and a filename as the second and writes the
specified file(assumed to be an disc image) to the specified device,
and if the second argument is omitted, creates an image of the
specified device.
Mac OSX and BSD might have their own versions of dd, but I don't know
if the above script would work there, and if you're using Windows or
need a graphical tool, I wouldn't know where to start.
--
Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
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