As an update to this thread, I found out that when I was using startx or xinit, gnome was not starting at all and this is why I was not getting speech -- no gnome-session or anything -- when I ran gdm and logged in, things worked much better.
on Tuesday 02/20/2007 Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > You have to logout and login back in order to accessibility support take > effect. > > Regards > > Javier > > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > De: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Enviado el: martes, 20 de febrero de 2007 14:05 > > Para: Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier > > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > > Asunto: RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo > > > > > > When I just tried to run orca -- I got a bonobo generalerror > > either orca -t from a text console, or orca & from a bash > > with DISPLAY set. How can I get accessibility going in gnome? > > > > on Tuesday 02/20/2007 Dorado Martínez, Francisco > > Javier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi all > > > > John, how are you launching Orca? > > > You can launch it in a gnome-terminal by typing alt + f2 > > and then write gnome-terminal plus enter key. > In that > > terminal launch Orca by typing > > > Orca& > > > > > > Now Orca should say "welcome to Orca" if it stops could > > you tell us what output gives orca after launching it in the > > terminal window? > > > > You could subscribe to the orca-list mailing list for > > going on the discussion > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Javier > > > > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > > > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre > > > > de John covici > > > > Enviado el: martes, 20 de febrero de 2007 10:10 > > > > Para: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > > > > Asunto: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built > > by gentoo > > > > > > > > > > Hi. I have a gentoo installation and I installed gnome with > > > > whatever accessibility I could get by saying > > USE=accessibility . > > > > > > Now I am having problems using orca with this install. For > > > > one thing, if I run test-speech I get multiple voices at the > > > > same time! I have festival started, I have the software > > > > Dectalk installed and espeak 1.20 installed. My main problem > > > > is that orca does not say anything but welcome to focus > > > > tracking mode -- and even not that all the time. I did an > > > > orca -t from a text console (using speakup and a hardware > > > > synth), and it seemed to work, but no joy. I am starting > > > > gnome using startx or xinit. It looks like I have gnome 2.16 > > > > from some of the versions of the packages I have. > > > > > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated as I have had no response > > > > from the gentoo list at all. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The > > > > question is: How do you spend it? > > > > > > > > John Covici > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > > > > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > > > > > > > -- > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The > > question is: How do you spend it? > > > > John Covici > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
