installing or reinstalling software on Nokia n82 and ubuntu
Can software such as Talks be installed or reinstalled on the Nokia N82 using Ubuntu and Orca? I ask because I have been told that I may need to do a hard reset of my phone because a few minutes after switching on my phone, apps are either slow to open or don't open at all in the case of Galery as I have been trying to find out how to take photos so maybe my parents might take holiday pics of me. I have been using Daisy2go as I have Talks Premium only I have transfered Daisy Books onto my SD card via the USB cable this is when I first noticed my phone appearing to be sluggish. I deleted one of my three audio books after listening to it and I have deleted the privacy information I may have stored on my phone while surfing the web on it but I still get this sluggishness a few minutes after I switch on my phone, the first couple of minutes or so it works fine for some reason. This is why I have been told I may need to do a hard reset and do some kind of reinstall which is why I ask if this can be done in Ubuntu similar to what I might do when transfering my Daisy books maybe. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
applications freezing in lucid
I have mentioned this on the Orca list but not sure if this is an Orca or a Ubuntu problem but I seem to hav3e this problem where after a certain length of time, applications freeze in Lucid and I don't think it has anything to do with having to type a password because the screensaver has come on and I am asked for my password to unlock the screen. What seems to happen is that either applications refuse to either launch or if they are launching which I think they possibly might be sometimes is that Orca doesn't read them like it isn't focusing on the app I am trying to use. I am guessing that they may be launching because sometimes if I press ALT plus F4 I get back to the application which may be running at the time or it will go to the desktop. I thought this application freezing problem might have had something to do with how i installed Lucid or even an old disk which wasn't installing properly but I have done a fresh install with the same CD and even tried burning a fresh one and doing another install only I am having this same strange problem. Has anyone else noticed this problem? I also thought it might have had something to do with installing certain software such as Extra pluggins only it does this thing without such software being installed. This is a problem which even sometimes causes me to have to something as drastic as pressing and holding the power button of my computers as CTRL ALT delete doesn't appear to work these days. It is a problem which I wonder if anyone else has noticed. If it is a serious problem I have found unfortunately I don't have the technical knowhow to be able to file a bug on it, create a report or whatever on the thing. This problem may for example happen when using Transmission when it has been left for a while and you try to for example open Evolution but this even happens with single apps when you have left the PC for a while and sometimes it acts like it loggs out and it wants your username and password again and sometimes entering these details unfreezes the PCs and sometimes it doesn't so it seems to me to be a strange problem. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
deja-dup not backing up
i can't seem to tell if deja-dup is running a backup for me. i chose to write to a cd or dvd but the furthest i get is a message saying location already mounted and close and i don't know if this is affecting my ability to create my backups and i can't even hear my cd and dvd drive spinning so i am assuming that something has gone wrong. whatever i can't even access my progress with ctrl f1. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
lucid very promising
after reading the latest posts about running ubuntu lucid with speech, i now have the beta installed on my laptop. it seems very promising with the login screen seeming to be more accessible and although i got a crash in it, it appears the ubuntu software centre also seems to work better with speech. however i have not been able to as yet access the wifi icon for networks so i am having to run my laptop off the ethanet cable for my bt router. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
ubuntu lucid
i have had a bit more of a look at the software centre in lucid and it just appears to say image so it may still be inaccessible when choosing software. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
wifi working in Lucid
Wifi Does appear to be now working in Lucid. After downloading the updates for Beta 2 I managed to locate my Wireless network icon so was able to enter my key for my wireless router. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
upgrading ubuntu
i think i am going to have to wwait until there is a bit more of a stable lucid or until final release and just do a fresh install of ubuntu. as i don't have the technical knowledge to be able to install speakup i don't know if an upgrade would be easier via a text terminal and i have not had any luck creating the file to be able to get accessible admin as regards the gui and i don't always have a sighted person around to be able to at least see if an upgrade is actually working. i remember once trying to do an upgrade where my local linux group used to hold meetings which i don't think has happened for a while because the main people have moved areas to leeds and the like and it would have taken to long to upgrade anyway but when i had someone look at what i was doing, they seemmed to think that the upgrade had not started when i went through the alt plus f2 update-manager dash d because when i had entered on ok, i seemed to have to tab to another upgrade button without speech access, hit enter on it and possibly had to re-type my password. it is like the interface for update-manager is slightly different with upgrading from that of updating where if you just do a standard up-date, you can tab around and get orca feedback to say that you have updates and when you hit the install and are maybe asked for the password, away it goes and downloads them whereas with the upgrade, you see that the upgrade is there if you run the update-manager from alt f2 with the dash d command at the end, it shows you the upgrade notes, you hit the upgrade button, you enter the password and ok it and i think to someone with sight you have to locate the upgrade button again which someone without sight can't access because i think a dialogue box pops up with buttons for check for updates, upgrade, and cancel and you have to go to the correct button and enter on the upgrade and possibly re-type admin password, ok and then it starts. i think that is what confuses people without sight like it is a double confirmation, when you see the notes about the new release you can accept and it is like it brings up another dialogue box after you first ok your password like are you sure you want to do this. i think i only found this out because the chap who was trying to help me said the upgrade hadn't started even though i had chosen the upgrade button, entered my password and hit ok. i think if i knew perhaps the number of tabbs when i have to get to the upgrade button in the dialogue box where orca doesn't appear to read i could possibly do it but without a family who are not linux users and with me not having a sighted partner or any sighted family member around looking at the pc or laptop screens for me i am only guessing there is this second dialogue appears before the actual upgrade is actually started. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
alte~rnate karmic and lucid cds
can the alternate cds for either karmic or lucid be used to install ubuntu and give speech feedback? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
upgrading ubuntu
i looked at the instructions for upgrading from hardy or karmic to lucid and it states to do an upgrade do alt plus f2, update-manager dash d, enter and follow the instructions to do a desktop upgrade. i looked at the instructions i typed and i think the sudo do-upgrade-release dash d does a server upgrade which might have been the reason why my attepts to upgrade crash. if i am going to have to do any upgrade via the up-date manager, after i have typed my password after chosing the ok button to upgrade, do i need to press space or enter again after i have been asked for my password and okayed the password as i am assuming that it doesn't start straight away after doing okay after typing my admin password. i am guessing that after entering or spacing on okay to accept my password i need to find the actual button to start the upgrade. is the button that starts the actual upgrade the default button in the dialogue box which is unaccessible because of the sudo problem or how many times do i need to press tab before i can accept and beginn my upgrade? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
upgrading ubuntu
it seems like i was trying to upgrade from ubuntu hardy to lucid. however the speech went halfway through my upgrade so i had to force my laptop to shutdown and restart only i don't think ubuntu upgraded properly as the menus still look like hardy menus as if nothing changed yet it seems to be accessing the ubuntu lucid repositories when i do an apt-get update so something has gone wrong somewhere. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
upgrading from hardy
i made a slight mistake the error message i get in hardy when i do sudo do-release-upgrade is release not found which is odd on a system running hardy so i must be missing a step before i issue that command from the terminal. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
testing lucid
i have been trying to have a look at the next release of ubuntu. i tried doing an upgrade a few times and for some reason the speech either went garbled or it changed language. i have tried the latest cd only it goes through the orca setup and then after asking me if i want to logout and back in again for the accessibility changes to take effect it says wellcome to orca before i make my decision and then when i type y followed by enter i get starting orca preferences followed by a loss of speech. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
problem with emerson daisy player
i have just downloaded the emerson daisy player but when i ran the executable after unzipping the archive file i got some error message about java. how do i download this jre file or whatever is needed to resolve this issue? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
accessible backup program
Does anyone know if there is an accessible backup program which is easy to use? I tried Sbackup but I had a few problems. It would only allow you to navigate the program if you were already logged in as administrator in the Sbackup configuration program and I couldn't seem to be able to use the restore app because of this admin problem. The other thing was I found I couldn't get a status on progress of backups when I tried it. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
upgrading one version of ubuntu to another
someone at my linux usergroup or lug once said to me that i don't need to do fresh installs when upgrading from one version of ubuntu to another. if this is so is the most accessiable way for someone totally blind to do it who doesn't have a sighted person around whose family are not linux users is to edit all the entries that beginn with deb in the etcstapsstsourcestddlist and do an apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade? i notice the update-manager is fairly accessible when doing a simple update to get the latest fixes and security etc but once when i tried to use it to do an upgrade someone said my dowload had not started after i did an alt f2 update-manager comd command, hit enter on the upgrade button and typed my admin password. my guess is that there is a dialogue box which comes up with some other button that possibly needs to be tabbed to which needs hitting before the actual upgrade starts and that if you don't locate this button and enter on it, the operating system will not upgrade properly if at all. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
setting up wireless internet
yesterday i managed to install ubuntu karmic on my toshiba laptop after a sighted person at work sorted out the bios setting for my cd drive to be able to run the live cd. i went into the network settings menu under preferences and found the wireless settings which seems accessible now as i was able to see the fields where the information should go but there were one or two settings i am not sure about like mac address and when i tried to save my settings they disappeared. how do i set up a wireless connection? i heard something in the lug i used to attend about some commands that locate wireless networks but i can't remember the actual commands. was it something like iwconfig or something? perhaps someone could give me some advice as at the moment if i want to use my laptop i have to unplug the cable for my router from behind my desktop pc and plug it into the laptop when i want to use my laptop on-line. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: method for accessing the installer doesn't work in intreped
I downloaded the test version of Intrepid yesterday and it didn't boot at all when doing the enter, down arrow, F5 3 and enter twice. It tried to boot then the CD drive popped out like it was ejecting the CD. On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 11:04 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:24:18AM EST, Mike Reiser wrote: Hello all, The method of accessing the installer doesn't seem to work in intreped. When I down arrow, press f5, 3, enter enter, it brings up a log on screen and I hit enter and orca doesn't come up in the installer. Is there another way of accessing it now? Thanks, First of all, use intrepid at your own risk, if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. Secondly, I am not aware of any issues with the installer, but I am not surprised something is broken. From after thursday, I will be able to focus more closely on accessibility bugs related to the live CD and installer, so I''l be able to do what I can to track this one down, and get it fixed. Thanks for the heads up. Luke -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIsgUQjVefwtBjIM4RAuGWAKDQhma6SM6DRTINuFDca42K+NlIIgCgpCf3 hq8UK56dsBlNJBaW50EH7gE= =BOYE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
intrepid live cd doesn't work
I had a look at the Intrepid Live CD a few days ago and it didn't work. I am aware it is only in testing until October but when you do the enter after the CD stops spinning, down arrow, press F5, 3 and enter twice it seems like it tries to boot then it ejects the CD and even not pressing any keys for accessibility, you still have the CD drive pop out after it spins for a bit. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
hardy alpha 2 and orca
I have just had a look at the Alpha 2 CD for Hardy. It didn't appear to work as well on my laptop as it did on my desktop as my desktop has more RAM and I had to start Orca manually and logout and back in again but it looks okay. I didn't really notice verry much difference as regards applications but did notice there was a Bittorrent application under the Internet menu where you have Firefox etc. I had to just run from the Live CD as the installer doesn't yet appear to work with speech so if I want to run it as a test version on my laptop I am going to have to wait for the chap at my local Linux group to help me install it. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
problems with punctuation in orca
I seem to be having a problem with punctuation in Orca when writing text documents be it email, the standard editor in fact anything where I am imputing text. What I mean is when I press Apostrophe or Quotes I get a beeping noise like an error message and any letter I type after that is missing or is run together for example if I type Michael's web site, all I get is Michaels Web Site. This is verry annoying if I am writing raw HTMl because it is making it impossible to create my hyperlinks, a field for my email etc. How do I resolve this problem? I use Ubuntu Feisty and a UK keyboard where apostrophe is supposed to be to the right of the keyboard, at is shift Apostrophe and shift 2 is Double Quotes. I can't understand why I am having this problem which I have had since Ubuntu has been installed as the At sign works fine. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Web page creation and publishing with speech
I am thinking of constructing a web page. I started it at one point under Windows but I lost a few files and with me thinking of eventually migrating to Linux I abandoned it for a while. What tools would anyone suggest for me to create and uploade my page which are accessible with speech in Linux? Hope someone can advise me. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
[ubuntu-uk] wep key and ubuntu
Hi! I am new to this list and fairly new to Ubuntu having just got it working on my desktop computer today on a separate USB drive as a Duel Boot system with Windows XP. I have a question about Wep keys. Recently BT which is my ISP insisted on sending me their Wireless Router with Hub phone and my sister set me up yesterday but she had problems with the wireless card for my laptop as it wasn't lighting up. I think I may have another problem as I think she may not have set up wireless properly, I have to have Sighted assistance setting up some of these things as I am totally Blind. I am certain she might not have set up the Wireless part of the Router even though it does work for the Ethanet connection so I do have a wired connection for my desktop. What I would like to know is is the WEP key different from my BT Password and Broadband phone Password and also can wireless be set up at any stage if it hasn't been activated already when my sister did the original installation which she did under Windows as she is not a Linux user? If my Broadband phone password which I need for Broadband hub phone and my BT password are different from the WEP key where do I find this key for activating Wireless on the Router or is this a key which I have to create myself a bit like my sudo password etc for Ubuntu Feisty? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] wep key and ubuntu
I think it could well be. Thanks for your suggestion about looking on the Router itself. Might have to get dad to re-install the wireless part, he has done it for his and mum's setup at home because I think they are probably same. On 09/06/07, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is this a BT Home Hub router/phone combo you're talking about? If so look on the back of the hub, there should be two sets of information: a BT Home Hub SSID/wep key, which will be for your wireless internet and a BT Fusion id and passkey which I guess is for the phone - we only have the router and not the phone so I don't use this. (I do actually have problems finding the network and connecting to it, but that's another matter...). Hope this helps? On 6/9/07, Michael Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am new to this list and fairly new to Ubuntu having just got it working on my desktop computer today on a separate USB drive as a Duel Boot system with Windows XP. I have a question about Wep keys. Recently BT which is my ISP insisted on sending me their Wireless Router with Hub phone and my sister set me up yesterday but she had problems with the wireless card for my laptop as it wasn't lighting up. I think I may have another problem as I think she may not have set up wireless properly, I have to have Sighted assistance setting up some of these things as I am totally Blind. I am certain she might not have set up the Wireless part of the Router even though it does work for the Ethanet connection so I do have a wired connection for my desktop. What I would like to know is is the WEP key different from my BT Password and Broadband phone Password and also can wireless be set up at any stage if it hasn't been activated already when my sister did the original installation which she did under Windows as she is not a Linux user? If my Broadband phone password which I need for Broadband hub phone and my BT password are different from the WEP key where do I find this key for activating Wireless on the Router or is this a key which I have to create myself a bit like my sudo password etc for Ubuntu Feisty? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
problem with speech in lynx
As I don't have the latest firefox or latest Orca, I tried to use Lynx in Ubuntu Feisty. However the help screen seems to obscure the pages I am trying to read and using the up and down arrows doesn't appear to scroll through the text properly. Could anyone suggest a text or graphical web browser that I can access web pages better when I run Feisty which is on my Laptop and when I connect to the Internet? I tried to run Speakup but the problem is I can only seem to get Espeak to Say Hello when I run spd-say hello. issuing sudo modprobe speakup_sftsyn seems to be silent. I did manage to run #Speakup once so I am wondering if I am having this problem because I just switched out of my Text console without shutting down Speakup so am wondering if the system is treating Speakup as if it is a running copy which is why I am not getting speech when doing the command to run Speakup? I tried to uninstall both speechd-up and speech-dispatcher and reinstalling the packages again to see if this would clear my problem but I am still getting the hello when I do spd-say hello with still the unwillingness to run Speakup. I was hoping that if I got Speakup working I might be able to access a text browser better than I would with Orca until I can get Firefox working better. I tried using w3m from a terminal using Orca but although I seemed to be able to navigat text on a page I couldn't tab through the Links on the page or even fill out forms and looking at the w3m hotkeys it seems they are assigned for a language other than UK keyboard keys or I haven't been able to find out how to get access with the keys that have been assigned. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
speakup refusing to speak in Feisty
I managed to get Speakup working in Feisty when I was at my Linux group but I can't seem to get it to work now and I am wondering if it is because I haven't exited Speakup properly when I changed from a text console to ex. The first and only time I got it working I issued spd-say hello from the text console and it said hello, I typed sudo modprobe speakup_sftsyn and it worked but when I do the latter command now I get no speech at all and I am not sure if it is even trying to load so I don't know if I have corrupted something and whether Speakup shut down properly and cleared itself from memory which is why I might be having this problem running it in Feisty now. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
feisty and the braillenote
Does anyone know if the Braillenote can act as a Braille display in Feisty. If so which cable do I use, USB or serial? The USB cable only seems to work when using the Braillenote in serial when running a Windows screenreader. How do you set up Ubuntu for Braille? Do I have to install Brltty with apt before I can run Braille? Hope someone can answer my questions. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
accessing gnucash with orca
I have just been looking at Gnucash with orca. Most of the fields seem navigable with the tab and shift tab keys and using some of the Orca keys I can do mouse clicks with it. However I have a couple of problems. One is navigating the accounts list when trying to set up sub accounts in the accounts list. The other problem I have is trying to schedule transactions. Does anyone have any suggestions for these things? I haven't quite managed to find out how to set up an accessible account structure although Orca does read some account names and I can't seem to find the fields in the Schedule for making transfers where you can type in your ammounts you want to transfer from one account to another and the other schedule details like occurences. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
errors connecting to wired broadband
I have been trying to use my wired Broadband MODEM which I use on my desktop PC in Windows on my laptop until I can get my Desktop PC running Edgy on the Hard drive I bought. However I keep getting error messages when I plug in the MODEM into the port on my Compaq laptop. I get an error message when trying to download messages in Evolution because it tells me it is unable to download, I can't seem to ping any address and w3m says can't load and whatever the page I am trying to open. I was told that Network Manager is a difficult application to set up and that I wouldn't need it but I can't understand why if that is the case my connection to my BT account is not being recognised which means I will have to wait until possibly April before I can access the Internet via my wireless network card which does work in Ubuntu. Before I had problems trying to change my software synth my laptop did appear to access the Network using my BT Voyager MODEM which meaned I was able to update packages so there must be something which someone set when it did work which did allow me to make a switch from Wireless to wired unless this person used Network Manager I had tried to install which was why both connection types were recognised. I looked in Network Settings and the other place it might be in Gnome but if it was something that had been set to get it to work I don't understand enough about Ubuntu to be able to find it. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
using apt
As someone who is totally Blind and as I presume it is difficult or impossible to get speech to read notifications as regards updating Ubuntu, how often should I run the apt commands to update and upgrade my laptop which is running Edgy until Feisty is released? Do you always do a sudo apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist upgrade even if you may be still on the same version of Ubuntu? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
no braille in Feisty
I just burned a copy of Feisty yesterday and had a brief look at it as for some reason my PC is very sluggish when i try to run Ubuntu as a Live CD which seems to be the same problem I had with Edgy, it just seems to let you just examine the menus as the applications either don't load or if they do they take longer time than I allow them to start so I don't know if this is a memory problem or a problem because I am running speech. I noticed that the speech is different so I assume Espeak is going to be the software synth for future releases. I tried to link my Braillenote to my desktop via serial port and although I specified Braille when going through the questions asked by Orca, none of the information spoken by Orca was shown. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
installing a suitable software synthesiser
I am hoping to upgrade Ubuntu on my laptop next week from Dapper to Edgy. I can use the default software synthesiser but I am not all that keen on it especially as one of the Linux groups I attend is in a fairly noisy pub. Could anyone suggest a suitable software synthesiser and how to install it? I have the Dectalk which I am hoping to get working but if I can't get it working with Orca I need to find out an alternative. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
edgy sluggish on desktop and no speech in live on my laptop
When I run the Edgy desktop CD as Live on my desktop PC with speech it is very sluggish, it seems to take a long time to do things even like open up the run dialogue box while speech is running. I presume this explains why Orca refuses to run on my laptop which is why ALT F2 and Orca doesn't responde. -- 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
problems with installing edgy
I went to my Linux Group this evening and tried to install Edgy only I ran into a few problems. The first problem I had was speech. Someone fully Sighted told me when the prompt appeared so I could choose the accessibility option I wanted, It seemed to come up with the menus when I pressed F5, I pressed 3 and enter twice but when Ubuntu came up, no speech at all. After this failed I tried installing it normally, Ubuntu played the tune when it starts from Live but the laptop seemed slow and took many minutes to bring up the desktop. The people helping me to try and install it tried to use the icon on the desktop to install it and it just seemed to lock up, maybe act like it was doing something then just crash. I am wondering if I have a faulty download when I downloaded it when it first came out as a released version and whether my problems may be resolved by a fresh download of the Edgy CD. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
edgy beta not speaking
I have managed to get the Edgy Beta working. However I get no speech after hearing the music, ALT F2 and Orca doesn't seem to work and it seems like my CDROM drive on my laptop is still churning away after Ubuntu comes up. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
braille displays/notetakers and ubuntu
I am possibly thinking of buying a Braille display or notetaker for using with Linux. Two I am considering are the Braillenote which is one I have seen most or the Elba. The Braillenote has the advantage of supporting GPS and the Elba runs the Linux operating system. When I was at an exhibition in Huddersfield I wasn't really able to ask Tony Gill the Huddersfield rep for Humanware if the Braillenote would work as a Braille display under Linux. Could anyone give me any suggestions as to displays/notetakers that will work with Ubuntu? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
problem with edgy CD
I have got the Live CD from the URL suggested by Henric. However for some reason when I boot, the disk churns around for a bit and I don't get the Ubuntu sound when running Live. I look at the disk or tried to in Windows and all I see is disk tree or something like that. I can't seem to be able to find any other files. Could this be why I am having trouble booting into edgy? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
upgrading to edgy
I am thinking of upgrading to Edgy from Dapper as I only have Ubuntu Dappa on my laptop and not on my desktop. However I have a few questions. As I am using my laptop and not my desktop, my laptop has a wireless card but as I only use it where I attend my Linux groups, it doesn't have a connection for home as I don't have a wireless router so wouldn't be able to set it up with my connection to BT. My Desktop is on the Internet but doesn't have Linux on it and I presume that even Edgy doesn't talk through the installation or bleep so you can access the accessability options. How do I go about upgrading my laptop using a CD of Edgy? I presume I have to edit a file so how do I go about doing this? Also if I go through the process of upgrading from Dapa Drake to Edgy would I get spoken feedback using Orca that is running with Dapa or would I need Sighted help? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
