Hello all. I had a chance to play with the amd64 netinst for Ascii in a virtualbox vm. I thought I would share what I found. For all of the following, I started the accessible install with s <enter> at the boot prompt.
1. On my first attempt, I chose the default of install devuan-desktop, mate, print server, and standard utilities. 2. Once I got into the installed system, I noted that spd-say "hello" didn't produce speech. I purged pulseaudio, and ran spd-conf choosing the libao sound output. Once I did this, spd-say worked as expected, and I got speech from orca once I logged in. 3. The system comes with slim, which isn't accessible. I noted that lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter are available in Ascii, so installed both. During the install of lightdm I was asked what login manager I wanted to use,and chose lightdm. I rebooted, and still got no speech on tty7. This is a regression from jessie as far as I remember. Upon investigating, I noticed that greeter-wrapper=/usr/bin/orca-dm-wrapper is missing in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf On my second install, I chose devuan-desktop, xfce, standard utilities, and console productivity. I noticed that spd-say "hello" came back with an error that speech-dispatcher wasn't running. I ran spd-conf, configured speech-dispatcher for pulseaudio which is installed, but still no joy. I purged pulseaudio, and configured speech-dispatcher for libao output, but again no joy. Configuring speech-dispatcher for alsa worked as far as hearing sound during the alsa test that spd-conf runs, but that's all. I still couldn't get spd-say to produce output. Since spd-say didn't work, it's certain that orca wouldn't work either since it uses speech-dispatcher for output. My conclusions from the above are: 1. If lightdm is going to be available going forward, it should be installed and configured as default instead of slim if the accessible install option is used. In addition, it should be configured in lightdm.conf to start orca at the login screen. During the jessie beta Centurian Dan had indicated that lightdm would be removed from devuan when I suggested this change be made to jessie. I can provide a link to that discussion in gitlab if needed. 2. If the accessible install option is used, I vote we not install pulseaudio since it seems to cause nothing but problems for myself and at least one other poster here. In addition, speech-dispatcher should be configured to use libao as output. At this point orca should be useable in mate. As for xfce, I'm not sure why speech-dispatcher still won't work even when pulse is purged. This requires further investigation. If there is more I need to elaborate on, I can do that. Also, the orca users on this list, please do jump in with your comments and opinions on the above. If someone can help in tracking down the speech-dispatcher issues when xfce is installed, that would be great too. I'm not sure if that is a problem inherited from debian, or if something done during the devuan install is the cause. Thanks for reading. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
