[manjaro-dev] This is my report on the mate basic image, not mate full

[Mark Peveto]

Hi folks,

I've compiled a report for you on the mage basic image out of a couple 
emails I sent to the sonar list.  I hope it'll help.

As requested by the manjaro developers, I made and am installing a mate 
basic image.  When I ran the mate full image, I reported that the alt f1 
function to get you to the menus didn't work.  In the basic image, for 
the install anyway, it seems to.  So far, the install is going 
smoothly.  In a few minutes, I'll be able to reboot the system and see 
how the actual installed version works.


I couldn't have asked for a prettier install, but when I try to boot 
into the installed system, no speech.  Alt super s doesn't give me orca, 
neither does control super s.  I'm not sure if that login screen is 
there or not, since i have no vision. I've tried blindly hitting enter 
and entering my password and enter again, but first try didn't work.  
I'm gonna try one more time, but it seems the mate basic and mate full 
have the same problem in common in the end.  It seems I can get into the 
console, but that's not gonna help me much here until I can get speech 
going.

I have, after some work managed to get into the console, but after I've 
typed sudo espeakup to get the console talking, speech dies after a 
couple key strokes, and i can only work with the test machine after 
using ssh to get into it from another box..  The mate desktop does not 
appear to load at all.  Also, no matter what I try to install, seems any 
package errors out.  For example, yaourt -S espeak-ng-git
I had to install yarout myself, which did install, but nothing else 
does.  Again, the error you see when you do yaourt -S espeak-ng-git will 
show you what I mean.


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Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user 600552