Try adding the accessibility use flag, then emerge --update --deep --newuse world.
-----Original Message----- From: David Mehler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March 29, 2010 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo Hello, Thanks for your reply. Here are my USE flags. USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce" My complete /etc/make.conf file is below. Thanks. Dave. /etc/make.conf: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more # detailed example. # VMware emulates an Intel Core 2 Duo CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j2" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vesa vga" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse" LINGUAS="en en_US" USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce" On 3/29/10, James Homuth <[email protected]> wrote: > What are your use flags? You're probably missing someething. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Mehler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: March 28, 2010 10:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo > > Hello, > I'm trying to get orca going on gentoo. The gnome version used is > 2.26. I've tried googling and asking on the orca mailing list, without success. > I installed gentoo following the handbook except used a serial > terminal, this is in a virtual machine as i unfortunately only have > one machine. Later i proceeded to install gnome, which failed. Before > the install would complete successfully libxml2 needed to be > installed. I next installed orca and started up gnome. I had to make > some changes to custom.conf so i could log in and loaded the > accessibility modules per instructions on the orca site. When i tried > to start orca via either the alt+f2, orca or in a terminal with orca > --text-setup i get to the second screen where i'm prompted for the > speech server always i choose gnome speech and then i hear no more > speech. I've also installed the java-access-bridge, but am assuming there's a configuration step i'm missing. > Any suggestions appreciated. > Thanks. > Dave. > > > >
