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If all you are looking for is text to speech to read web pages, then I recommend using the google chrome web browser and install various text to speech engine extentions for the browser to see which...

Are the icons on the side of the screen zoomed in on as well? I recall being able to get enhanced zoon to work with unity but I could not get the icons zoomed in. Only the desktop itself was zoomed...

Which version of Ubuntu are you using. With the later versions of Ubuntu, Ubuntu uses Unity as it's default desktop environment and Enhanced Zoom does not work well with it. I recomend using the...

Hello, as a person with a visual disability, I find that the desktop that Ubuntu now uses by default is not very disabled friendly. As least not when it comes to people with a visual disability. How...

Hello, This howto provides a tutorial for getting around the black screen issue which may present itself when one tries to run Ubuntu from live CD or after a fresh installation. What happenes is that...

Hi, I tired to see if Ubuntu 11.10 would work using virutalbox and sure enough it loaded and I was able to see the desktop with no problem. This leads me to belive that the problem that I am having...

Hi, thanks for the replies. Passing nomodeset as a kernal argument gets past the intial screen and now I can see the splash screen but after the splash screen when loading the gi/desktop environment,...

Hi, thanks for the reply. I tried using safe graphics mode but it still does not work. Instead of getting out of range message when using safe graphics mode, the monitor just says no signal and turns...

Hi, I'm trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 using wubi but when It is trying to load the installer, I get an out of range message on my monitor. I also tried to run Ubuntu in live CD mode but still get...

Just downloaded and installed FoxVox speech addon. It works but the voice is not that good. Has anyone tired it?

You need to unzip the book and transfer it into the top level directory or the root directory of the cartridge. I have this service as well. What you have to do is right click the book in the zipped...

Thanks so much for this fix. I was wondering why Enhanced Desktop Zoom was not working smoothly. I'm a legally blind disabled male who needs magnification software to comfortably operate a computer....

Thanks for you help. I have solved this issue. The problem was since I am using a TV/PC monitor combo, resolutions higher than 1024x768 were not being picked up. Installing the proprietary drivers...

Hi, I have just about solved my issue. The only thing is that now I have a 1 on the top left corner of my monitor. How do I remove this? Thanks.

Anyone know what could the problem be and how to fix it? Thanks.

Hello, after installing the proprietary drivers for my ATI Radeon 5450 graphics card, I get and out of range message when trying to boot after the drivers are installed and am told to restart for the...

Hi, thanks for all the help everyone. I fixed it. It turns out that I had to do a BIOS update and that did the trick. I got the idea to try a BIOS update from doing a search for the grub error...

Hi, thanks for all the help everyone. I fixed it. It turns out that I had to do a BIOS update and that did the trick. I got the idea to try a BIOS update from doing a search for the grub error...

Hi, thanks for your help. I was able to install grub to the mbr of sdb but it still does not work. I am getting an error message when booting that reads error out of disk grub rescue. Thanks.

Thanks everyone for all your help so far. Here is the information from the results.txt file



Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
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Hi, thanks for your help here is the output of boot info script. I have have found out that my computer cannot directly boot from external hard drives but it can do so using a program called plop...

I have tried installing ubuntu on the begining of the usb external hard drive even backing up my files on the usb drive to the internal hard drive and making the ext4 parition the first partition. I...

I see. Yes the 40GB partition I have created for Ubuntu is at the nd of this 500GB external usb hard drive. I will try your suggestions and post back here. Thanks for your help.

Looking further into my BIOS, I can infact change the hard drive order to make my external usb drive first and my internal drive second. I tried this setup but I get an unbootable system with puting...

Thanks for the replies. I would install grub to the mbr of my windows xp internal drive but if I do that and install ubuntu on my external drive, it leaves me with an unbootable system not being able...