RE: call for braille device testing

2007-02-21 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Henrik, the problems I reported a couple weeks ago still exist. 1. When I boot feisty with my USB braille display connected brltty still attempts to start twice initially giving an error which I have to press any key on the display to dismiss. 2. Orca is still not able to connect to brl

open office

2007-02-21 Thread mike coulombe
Hi, I un installed lsr which didn't work anyway. After I did open office loads but I get no speech. However when exiting it does ask if I want to save changes. So the problem must be with something that got installed when I installed lsr. Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessib

Re: Voice Recognition for Linux

2007-02-21 Thread Chris Hayes
Thanks for those links Jan. I've decided that I'm gonna try to get one of the Sphinx voice recognition things working on my computer, so I can at least see how capable it is, and whether it could anything could be done to make the installation / training of it easier - so that more people could tr

has anyone played with power settings

2007-02-21 Thread mike coulombe
Hi, I notice the power settings in ubuntu only allow the system to hibernate. Is there a package I can get that will just turn the drive off like windows does. This way less power will be used at night and the system will still be up if I need it. Mike. X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000715-1, 02/21/20

Re: is there a problem with open office

2007-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. You didn't say what version of Ubuntu you are running. I just tested on my Feisty box and had no problem opening the Open Office word processor. My system is running the latest packages as of this morning. Kenny -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubu

Re: Voice Recognition for Linux

2007-02-21 Thread Jan Claeys
On ma, 2007-02-19 at 18:17 +, Chris Hayes wrote: > He does have a website however, and has started a kind of discussion > thread on that - which is available through this link > http://www.hi2u.org/discussions/voice4linux.htm > > If anyone has had any experience with voice recognition software

Re: is there a problem with open office

2007-02-21 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
mike coulombe wrote: > Hi, I noticed that open office doesn't load at all. Sounds like a problem peculiar to your system, I'm afraid. What version of Ubuntu are you using, and how are you starting OpenOffice.org? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibilit

is there a problem with open office

2007-02-21 Thread mike coulombe
Hi, I noticed that open office doesn't load at all. It has been some time since I needed it. Has anyone else had a problem with this program in the past week or so. Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ac

Re: need a little help

2007-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Are you trying to remove the CD when you have booted from it? If so, doubt you can do it. Trying to remove the disk the system booted from would be like removing the hard drive the system booted from while the system was still running. If you are trying to remove a cd you put in the drive a