Dumb Question about orca and GNOME menu options
Hi all, OK, getting my hand back in the GNU/Linux thing. Finally I have a machine that's got enough umpf (technical term) to run GNOME and orca. Which is to say the Celeron/800 finally croaked and I got a P4/1.8/1GB RAM, cheap. Seems to do OK. Eventually I reckon I'll put Cepstral voices on and all that, but first-- I'm fairly sure this was addressed somewhere, but here goes. Ubuntu 8.10, desktop CD. Installed it after trying out Vibuntu (before the name change) and deciding that I didn't really want it to log in as orca and have that account hanging around. So, installed the old way, i.e. stopping orca and sudo to run ubiquity after restarting orca as root. All good. Now, how again do I get things like shut down and log off dialogs to speak? They come up as inaccessible to orca, and I suspect this has something to do with permissions things are running under, but I think I need a bit more direction. FWIW, I had the same soundcard issue as a previous poster with 9.04. No sound at all with 9.04. Thanks, Buddy -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Status of Gutsy Daily Live CDs?
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 08:22:48PM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering what's up with the Gutsy CDs? For the last couple weeks now, > each disk I've tried has booted, but I get no speech when I attempt to run > Orca. I'm guessing this is a known issue, but is there a specific bug number > where its status can be tracked, or should we just wait until further notice > before trying any more daily builds? I can confirm this. I just downloaded one, and no sound at all in fact. When I tried to run orca manually, I got a pop out of the speakers and nothing after. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone 888-75-BUDDY Get a free online mall and earn on 1000 stores: http://www.powermall.info >From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make meals and baking easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Console Display Weirdness--any clues?
Hi guys, OK, so since GNOME is running so hideously slow (as previously mentioned), I'm back to my good ol' reliable console apps and Speakup. Not a bad thing, mind you. But I'm wondering if anyone's noticed anything odd? I can't explain it much better than this: Screens don't always seem to draw properly. For instance, if you go to www.google.com with lynx, the search edit field starts with Go followed by the _ characters to denote a form field. The first link of the page says iGoogle, and some pages, letters are missing at the beginnings of words or stuck on the wrong lines. While this might just be an oddity with the lynx-cur package (I doubt this), I have a different, though as annoying, problem with centericq. Instead of drawing the screen with the high ASCII graphics characters as one would expect, the terminal uses punctuation characters, as if I were using a terminal incapable of displaying these other characters. echo $TERM says my terminal type is linux as it ought to be. And while I'm at it, how can I get a bigger display (i.e. 50 lines/132 columns)? I got spoiled by this with grml... -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone 888-75-BUDDY Get a free online mall and earn on 1000 stores: http://www.powermall.us >From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make meals and baking easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net ...And see how a Watkins business can improve your life. Read our free Ebook: http://www.tastybiz.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Forgot something: Orca isn't starting on login
Howdy, In my last Email, I forgot a detail... For some reason, even though it's checked in accessibility preferences, orca isn't starting on login. At least, it doesn't seem to be, as there's no speech. I can get it to run from alt-f2, though. Anything I should be checking on this? -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone 888-75-BUDDY Get a free online mall and earn on 1000 stores: http://www.powermall.us >From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make meals and baking easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net ...And see how a Watkins business can improve your life. Read our free Ebook: http://www.tastybiz.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Got Ubuntu installed, but--
Hi y'all, OK! I got it installed (Yay!) It took some doing, though, and thank goodness for Speakup. I ended up having to do something like this: Boot (I don't know if it booted with or without accessibility support the final time, but no matter, cause Orca wasn't coming up on its own anyway) Start Orca Open the terminal, sudo su, then kill Orca Start Orca again Get the non-responsive Orca, so-- Alt-tab back to the terminal, type fg, then ctrl-c In another console, start up Speakup and kill off all the stuff that makes Orca go Go back to the gnome-terminal and restart Orca (which starts) Then run ubiquity... ...but I had to do this a couple times, because the partitioner was having an issue with my hard drive, which I finally solved by just wiping the partition table completely with fdisk. I got installed, but the city/timezone selection dialog didn't really work for me. Good thing it automatically assumed I was Americal/New_York. I was able to get past it with Orca's flat review keys. OK, so now I have a nice, shiny new Ubuntu running on a slow Celeron/800 with 512MB RAM (well, 504 after the 8MB of shared video memory). And goodness me is gnome ever slow. I think I'd like to change to using the Cepstral voices I have, but I don't dare at this point. Anything I can do to make it a little less painful? Is there a more better window manager for instance, or should I just go for a more better computer? But since I'm asking about Cepstral (well, I wasn't, but I did bring it up), in order to use it, do I need to build gnome-speech from source? I mean--I eventually plan on playing with mozilla3 and Openoffice, but not on this machine for heaven's sake. And any ideas (while I'm here) on getting speakup to load earlier (I just stuck it in /etc/modules, which is OK really) Apart from running really slow, which is at least 75% my fault for having a computersaurus, this looks pretty promising. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone 888-75-BUDDY Get a free online mall and earn on 1000 stores: http://www.powermall.us >From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make meals and baking easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net ...And see how a Watkins business can improve your life. Read our free Ebook: http://www.tastybiz.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Orca and Installing--again
Hi y'all, Yep, again...LOL Browsing the archives, it looks like my install's gone about the same as Debee's, with the following differences, fairly minor in nature. First, you should know--the computer is really old and slow. Celeron/800, 512MB RAM (and video adapter that uses shared memory, set to however little I could get away with, looks like 8MB). So here's what happens: Computer boots, but the hard drive doesn't really stop. Still, after a couple seconds, pressing F5, then 3, then enter twice, gets the machine to boot. This takes a really, really long time, but as I said, it's a really slow machine. No music and no orca, but gnome comes up. To get orca, pressing alt-f2 and typing orca seems to do the trick. Orca actually seems to do what it's supposed to, and it's nice not to have to use festival. In gnome-terminal, which also comes up, stopping orca after typing sudo so is all good. Restarting orca gets me a "Welcome to orca", followed by silence, and keys don't respond. Typing ubiquity and waiting doesn't seem to do a whole bunch either. I don't even get the reading of Debee's apparent log output. Any suggestions what to do to nail this down a bit better? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
