[arch-releng] talking arch wiki needs an update

[Jude DaShiell]

The tutorial I originally got my notes from is at:
https://talkingarch.tk/tutorials/TalkingArch%20Tutorial%20-%20Basic%20Installation.opus
          https://talkingarch.tk/tutorials/TalkingArch Tutorial - Basic
Installation.opus


On
Sun, 7 Jun 2020,
Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-releng wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 12:31:43
> From: Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-releng <arch-releng at archlinux.org>
> To: arch-releng at archlinux.org
> Cc: Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-releng] talking arch wiki needs an update
>
> hello Jude.
>
> 07.06.2020 18:09, Jude DaShiell ?????:
> > The audio tutorial on that page is way out of date and only gets anyone to
> > an unbootable system if instructions are followed.  At the least it needs
> > removal and at best it needs an update.
> where exactly you found an audio tutorial?
> > I used the latest talkingarch to do an arch install and still have an
> > unbootable system.
> are you using a TalkingArch from talkingarch.info?
> > For one thing, the pacstrap line is defective.
> > It needs at minimum to be:
> > pacstrap /mnt base base-devel espeakup alsa-utils pulseaudio-alsa dhcpcd
> > linux linux-firmware grub vi
> You are not quite right. Some packages in your command are not needed.
> >
> > Even with that line I haven't got a bootable system since I don't get the
> > grub beep when trying to boot the system.
> > Beyond that, where is alsa.state supposed to be located and where does
> > alsa.state get copied for anything to work?
> > I had to attach a second speaker set to a usb port to get the system to
> > generate an asound.conf file but even copying that into /mnt/etc didn't
> > help.
> this is correct, if you have only one sound card, then the file will not
> be created. it just isn't needed.
> > Another question related to this is if you don't have two or more sound
> > cards what are the proper commands to get alsa working at all on a new
> > system install with espeakup?  That was never coveered in the basic
> > install tutorial either.
> no special commands are needed. it should just work.
> > I've been trying to install this distro for the last couple days so I
> > could add a second machine to help out with the foldingathome project and
> > so far no cigar.
> > The braille notes I have came from that tutorial and I need to know what
> > to update so those can be rewritten so they'll be correct.  For some
> > reason Jenux won't even come up talking on the second machine though
> > talkingarch does.
> >
> >
> > --
>
>

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