Re: Orca edgy not installing
For what it's worth, I've also been unsuccessful with the LIve CDR image from about 10 days ago. I've been too busy to try again in the last week, but will do so soon. My issue: The Live CD boots OK. Orca comes up. I cannot start Orca as root. It just hangs, there is no speech after something like "starting orca," and the terminal command prompt never returns. Would it be useful to set aside iso images for builds known to actually work at some address somewhere? I can offer our ftp servers for that, I suppose, but I'm not sure how it could work exactly. Janina Joanmarie Diggs writes: > Methinks not all live CDs are created equal. The live CD I grabbed a > week or two ago from ubuntu.com/download works just fine. However, > given these reports, I just gave it another go using the image from the > mirror at Argonne. That image seems to lack the accessibility options. > Pressing F5 does cause the list of options to appear, and theoretically > pressing 3 chooses Screen Reader, but no actual screen reading results > upon boot. Rather than play mirror-roulette, I burned a new copy from > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/. It works as expected. > I've updated the Orca wiki to reflect the above. > > Of course, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ will eventually > be pointing to Feisty builds. And the official release directories > (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/edgy/release/ and > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/6.10/release/) seem to only have live > DVDs Is there anything that can be done to ensure that what's being > mirrored will enable one to perform an accessible install? And what > about adding live CDs to the release directories? > > Thanks! > Joanie > > Terrence van Ettinger wrote: > > I had a similar problem, and installing off the alt disk was a good > > solution. The alt disk installed easily, though you might need a > > sighted person to help you with the installation; I can read large print > > slowly and was able to squint through the installation though it took me > > a while. But the install itself went smoothly, and I am writing this > > e-mail from the system in question. > > > > Terrence > > ___ > Orca-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list -- Janina SajkaPhone: +1.202.595. Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://a11y.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca edgy not installing
Methinks not all live CDs are created equal. The live CD I grabbed a week or two ago from ubuntu.com/download works just fine. However, given these reports, I just gave it another go using the image from the mirror at Argonne. That image seems to lack the accessibility options. Pressing F5 does cause the list of options to appear, and theoretically pressing 3 chooses Screen Reader, but no actual screen reading results upon boot. Rather than play mirror-roulette, I burned a new copy from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/. It works as expected. I've updated the Orca wiki to reflect the above. Of course, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ will eventually be pointing to Feisty builds. And the official release directories (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/edgy/release/ and http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/6.10/release/) seem to only have live DVDs Is there anything that can be done to ensure that what's being mirrored will enable one to perform an accessible install? And what about adding live CDs to the release directories? Thanks! Joanie Terrence van Ettinger wrote: > I had a similar problem, and installing off the alt disk was a good > solution. The alt disk installed easily, though you might need a > sighted person to help you with the installation; I can read large print > slowly and was able to squint through the installation though it took me > a while. But the install itself went smoothly, and I am writing this > e-mail from the system in question. > > Terrence -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca edgy not installing
I had a similar problem, and installing off the alt disk was a good solution. The alt disk installed easily, though you might need a sighted person to help you with the installation; I can read large print slowly and was able to squint through the installation though it took me a while. But the install itself went smoothly, and I am writing this e-mail from the system in question. Terrence -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca edgy not installing
Hello, all. As far as the installation of latest ubuntu distribution is concerned, I would like to share with my personal experience. 1. Pressing F5, 3, and enter (twice) did not work for me. 2. Booting from the CD without any startup options worked fine. I've been able to start orca manually. 3. I successfully installed ubuntu yes-free, by running orca as root before launching ubiquity. 4. The only problem I have with the installer is that I can not select my time zone. I chose English as my default language (since it is the only one supported by the tts engine), but when I try to select my timezone in the next dialog, orca just stop speaking after a few second. 5. If I just bypass this step, all other steps go quite smoothly and installation finishes without problem. I get a talking system after the reboot, with all my other operating systems added to the grub menu, functioning network etc... With best regards, Sergei. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca edgy not installing
Hey mike, I have the same issue the the Edgy live disk and so now I know its not just me. It takes ages for it to boot, and half the time, even if you press f5, 3, then enter, speech won't come up anyway. Maybe you might try the alternate CD to install without booting to the desktop I don't know never used it. But its worth a shot. Cody On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 20:15 +, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > I went to my Linux group on Monday to try and upgrade my version of > Ubuntu to Edgy. > However the speech didn't seem to come up when I pressed F5 followed by > 3 when the boot menu came up and it seems like even trying to install > without speech didn't work either. > I burned the Live CD myself at home. > For some reason it took an extremely long time to load Ubuntu as a live > version on my laptop, I got the music and the icons took ages to come up > but even when a Fully Sighted person double clicked on the install icon > on the desktop, the system just crashed. > I know there was talk of a problem with the desktop icon for the > installer in the info on having a spoken installation of Ubuntu from > running it live but does this problem affect the Sighted user as well > which was why I kept getting a system crsh? > As far as I know I don't have any problems with my CDs as I think it > does run as Live but I burned a fresh copy on Tuesday to see if I have > the same problem and as far as I can tell although I can't read the > screen without speech, the problem is still there. > I even tried checking my desk when I put it in my desktop machine but it > keeps trying to come up with that stuff on screen so I can't check to > see if all the files are there so the only thing I can see is something > like disk tree or something like that because it tries to run as live > when I am in Windows. > ___ > Orca-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
edgy not installing
I went to my Linux group on Monday to try and upgrade my version of Ubuntu to Edgy. However the speech didn't seem to come up when I pressed F5 followed by 3 when the boot menu came up and it seems like even trying to install without speech didn't work either. I burned the Live CD myself at home. For some reason it took an extremely long time to load Ubuntu as a live version on my laptop, I got the music and the icons took ages to come up but even when a Fully Sighted person double clicked on the install icon on the desktop, the system just crashed. I know there was talk of a problem with the desktop icon for the installer in the info on having a spoken installation of Ubuntu from running it live but does this problem affect the Sighted user as well which was why I kept getting a system crsh? As far as I know I don't have any problems with my CDs as I think it does run as Live but I burned a fresh copy on Tuesday to see if I have the same problem and as far as I can tell although I can't read the screen without speech, the problem is still there. I even tried checking my desk when I put it in my desktop machine but it keeps trying to come up with that stuff on screen so I can't check to see if all the files are there so the only thing I can see is something like disk tree or something like that because it tries to run as live when I am in Windows. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
