Nolan Darilek wrote: > Hello, seems this list gets quite a few Ubuntu questions. Hopefully > it's OK if I toss out one more. Hopefully it's quick with a simple > solution. :) >
You could also try the ubuntu list at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility It's read by many of the same people, but at least there all ubuntu questions are on-topic. > I decided to wipe my older Ubuntu install and try installing from the > live CD. For some reason, GDM seems to start but I'm not getting the > usual login sound, and I can see enough to note that the screen has > various shades of blue, which doesn't jive with my experiences from > before. :) > Hm, blue? Are you sure it's not Xubuntu? :) Is this the Live CD booting up or after install? > I've burned and booted the live CD, gotten Orca running and played > with a few applications. Things seem to work. Clicking the > installation icon on the desktop seems to kill speech, however. I see > that another window has opened, but it doesn't speak and I can't seem > to get Orca to offer any indications of focus change. Sorta reminds > me of the behavior when I'd run some graphical application requiring > sudo. > That is precisely because the installer runs as sudo. Unfortunately we won't get this to Just Work for this release, but the work-around is fairly simple: run both Orca and the installer as root: * Open a terminal and Enter 'sudo su' * Kill the running version of orca * Enter 'orca &' in the root terminal * Enter 'ubiquity' to launch the installer * When installation is complete you will be prompted to reboot > Any idea as to what might be happening? I've looked at the forum, but > all indications seem to point to simply clicking "install." This is > with a current live CD as of late last night/early this morning. I've > tried both running orca manually, and via the "press F5, then 3" > method, thinking that perhaps this performed additional configuration > steps which I'd missed. > You might even need to get a more recent version because a few days ago we had a fix in the installer that would launch Orca as root before starting itself, but the results were messy, so we decided that documenting a workaround would be better. -- Actually your existing CD should work as well if you kill the running version of Orca just before launching the installer. Henrik -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
