Update: I will still get this if I re-install, which I may do. However for now, I have dist-upgraded within jaunty. At that, orca produced no sound at all. I installed sox, and trying to play an mp3 file got me no sound at all. I installed aumixer, and changed the system volume from 0 to 100. The mp3 plaied, but orca still wouldn't speak. Rebooting yet again got me a system with seemingly no sound.
So maybe 9.04 is not as functional as I thought. figuring I have nothing to lose, I am purging pulseaudio. Luke On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, luke Davis wrote: > Hello > > I have recently had to reinstall Ubuntu on my laptop, and went with 9.04. > Starting to regret it, since I wanted LVM, but the installer doesn't > include it, but that's neither here nor there. > > My urgent usability problem is: orca is starting when I alt-F2 and type > orca, but it says everything at an incomprehensible high speed, as > described previously on this list. > > I have tried the "touch ~/.pulse_a11y_nostart" solution oft-described on > these lists, but it had absolutely no effect. > > I need this laptop for a job in a few hours--are there any other solutions > which might be implemented, since the touch option doesn't work? > > an "ls .pulse*" gets: > > .pulse_a11y_nostart .pulse-cookie > > .pulse: > 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:default-sink > 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:default-source > 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:device-volumes.i486-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm > 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:runtime > 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:stream-volumes.i486-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm > > Luke > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
