[macvoiceover] Re: Urgent help needed - getting VO to speak when booting from USB flash drive?
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:28:42 -0600
Hi TF,
Mine is set to System default! What is yours set to?
Thanks,
Russell
On 2013-06-18, at 1:39 PM, Tuscia-Falconer <falconer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> In VO utility under sound I have two output options, 'system default and
> 'built-in output'.
> What are you set to ?
>
> TF
>
> On 19/06/2013, at 7:24 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> Well, a bit of good news, and, a bit of bad. The good news is that VO is now
> coming up speaking at the login screen! It's been so long since this worked,
> and, it's so nice to have it back.
>
> The bad news is that I can still not get speech in the recovery partition or
> the SD bootable disk unless I use headphones! I tried your suggestion, but,
> the speech will not come on with the headphones unplugged. Having said this
> though, it's still good news, because now at least I know I can get speech
> and re-install my OS independently… would be nice to know what's going on
> with the external speaker at the recovery or bootable disk level though.
> Will need to research… may have to take my iMac in for repairs!
>
> Thanks again for all your help.
>
> Russell
> On 2013-06-18, at 12:34 PM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Russel,
>>
>> I'm happy that IMAP is working out well for you. Having things saved to the
>> cloud makes certain tasks so much easier. If not easier then, a little more
>> worry free. :). I have one more suggestion. With your headphones on, when
>> in the recovery partition or, booting to a thumb drive /SD card, press VO
>> command left or right arrow until you get to volume. Now, unplug your
>> headphones, and press VO command up arrow and see if that raises the volume
>> on your iMacs speakers. At least, I seem to remember you using an iMac?
>>
>> Any who, haha, that should raise the volume on your built in speakers.
>>
>> hth
>>
>> Ricardo Walker
>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>
>> On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Ricardo! Once again you've solved my problem! When you mentioned
>>> wearing headphones in your previous email, I thought I'd give it a try with
>>> headphones! I was pretty skeptical that this would make a difference, so,
>>> imagine my surprise when I booted to my SD card, pressed command f5 and
>>> heard the sweet sound of VO!! I am assuming I have some sort of hardware
>>> issue going on with my iMac. I haven't yet tested it out, but, I'm sure
>>> that this is the same issue I am having with not having VO come on at the
>>> login screen. I am going to try it without headphones, and, if I get no
>>> speech at login, I'll try it with headphones.
>>>
>>> And, just one other thing to thank you for Ricardo… the last time I was
>>> re-installing my OS, you had suggested using IMAP so that I wouldn't have
>>> to backup email messages. I recently moved to GMail using IMAP, and, it's
>>> a beautiful thing! After clean installing Mountain Lion this morning, I
>>> set up my GMail account, and, magically, there were all my messages, nicely
>>> sorted in the folders I had previously created! Sweet, sweet, sweet!
>>>
>>> My iMac is now running like a new machine! It's a happy day! :)
>>>
>>> Russell
>>> On 2013-06-18, at 8:04 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I was in the ML recovery partition a couple of days ago. VO turned
>>>> on with command F5, it was just really low. Honestly, if I wasn’t using
>>>> headphones at the time, I might have not notice Voiceover was on.
>>>>
>>>> Ricardo Walker
>>>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>>>> www.appletothecore.info
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 18, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ricardo,
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried the Fn key with command F5, but no go. I now tried turning up
>>>>> the volume, but that didn't work either. Ricardo, have you had luck with
>>>>> getting VO to speak when booting from a thumb drive or SD card? The
>>>>> strange thing is, I can't even get VO to speak when booting to the ML
>>>>> recovery partition... is VO available at the ML recovery partition, as
>>>>> far as you know? Wow, one of the things I loved about my Mac over a
>>>>> Windows machine was the ability to re-install the OS independently, but,
>>>>> it seems that functionality may not be available anymore!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Ricardo!
>>>>>
>>>>> Russell
>>>>> On 2013-06-18, at 5:46 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The volume could be turned down very low as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ricardo Walker
>>>>>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>>>>>> www.appletothecore.info
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:28 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey John,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oh, yes. I tried Command F5 many, many times! :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for checking though!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Russell
>>>>>>> On 2013-06-17, at 3:55 PM, John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I know a simple question, but did you do a command-F5 to start
>>>>>>>> VoiceOver?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Take Care
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Russell Solowoniuk
>>>>>>>> <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Okay, I backed up all my files, and am now ready to do a clean
>>>>>>>>> install of Mountain Lion. I am using a 16 GB SD card. I downloaded
>>>>>>>>> Lion Disk Maker, and created a bootable SD card. I then inseted this
>>>>>>>>> card into my computer with an SD card reader, went to System
>>>>>>>>> Preferences and chose this SD card as the startup drive, and then
>>>>>>>>> restarted the computer.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My problem is that I am not able to get VO to start off of this SD
>>>>>>>>> card! I know that I have booted to it because I called a friend on
>>>>>>>>> FaceTime on my iPhone and had her look at the screen. I have the
>>>>>>>>> options to install ML, go to Utilities, etc., but I can't get VO to
>>>>>>>>> come on.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Does anyone know if using Lion Disk Maker to create a bootable SD
>>>>>>>>> card actually includes files to allow for VO use? Or, should I
>>>>>>>>> create the bootable SD card using the Mac's own Disk Utilities?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>>>>>>
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