[arch-releng] talking arch wiki needs an update

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On 2020-06-07 19:00, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 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 The audio tutorial on that page is way out of date and only gets anyone to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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