Hi, This is probably obvious, but do you have a sound card in the VM? In my experience sometimes they lack this bit of virtual hardware without manual addition. Otherwise, I honestly can’t think of anything to check, other than stuff on the physical machine.
Best, Zack. > On May 27, 2016, at 4:51 PM, norman <li...@thekingstech.com> wrote: > > Hello all. > The question was slightly misunderstood. I'm the friend that rosanna > mentioned was helping her. > The actual situation is that we were trying to install talking arch and the > installer will not talk. > I have vmware workstation player on her computer and set up a vm for it. > However, when connecting the cd and booting the vm there is no audio. > The distro used was downloaded from here. > https://talkingarch.tk/download.php > > Any thoughts? > >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] question from a new member >> Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 17:52:58 -0700 >> From: Zachary Kline <zkl...@speedpost.net> >> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> >> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Did your friend actually go through the process of installing Talking Arch? >> If so, espeakup should have been installed as one of the manual steps >> involved. If not, you need to do this yourself. It isn’t difficult, but you >> won’t have speech feedback obviously. >> Log in as root, and then run “pacman -S espeakup alsa-utils,” hit y, and >> then, “systemctl enable espeakup.service.” >> If all this was already done, obviously disregard this advice, but the >> system is pretty simple to get going in a VM. >> >> Best, >> Zack. >> > On May 25, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Rosanna >> > Hostetler<rhostet...@consolidated.net> wrote: >> > >> > a question on talking arch Hi all, I am new to the list and don't >> > remember how to start fresh, so I just had a friend help me get VMware on >> > which I put or he helped me put talking arch linux on it. The question I >> > have, is how do I get talking arch to talk when I run the program? Thanks >> > in advance. >> > >> > >> > >> > On 5/23/2016 7:41 PM, Noah Schoem wrote: >> >> See the Arch wiki beginner's guide >> >><https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide>for installation >> >> instructions. If you're looking to remove microsoft from your laptop, I >> >> would recommend deleting all of the partitions on the hard drive. >> >> Details on how to do that, and more information on the disk utility that >> >> comes on the Arch iso, are available at the wiki's page on parted >> >><https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Parted>. >> >> >> >> Signed, >> >> Noah Schoem >> >> >> >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:03 PM, message<let...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Readers, >> >>> >> >>> Can someone please suggest a suitable wiki web page to help, for removal >> >>> of m$ (e.g. lenovo ideapad 100s) and installation of archlinux? >> >>> >> >> >> >