[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 10:57:29 -0600
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
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>
> 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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