Installing stretch

2017-10-12 Thread Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, When I installed Stretch using the speaking instabler and BRLTTY, it worked fine until I lebooted. When I rebooted I had no BRLTTY. I had speech in mate but not in the text consoles. Where did I go wronh? Bertil Sent from my iPhone

Ocrfeeder

2014-05-23 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I tried to use ocrfeeder for the first time in order to access a .pdf file. When I do ocrfeeder-cli -i inputfule.pdf -o outputfile.odt I get the following message: IOError: cannot identify image file Has anybody else had the same problem? If so, how does one access .pdf files that c

Gnome doesn't load when orca is installed

2012-04-01 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, After upgrading to 'Sid, orca loads before I've logged into Gnome. I can move in the Orca window, But i can't log in. The login window is on the screen, but the keystrokes are not passed on. All I have on my braille display is the Orca window. In order to log in to Gnome, I have to

orca won't start

2011-10-19 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
I just upgraded from Debian Squeeze to Sid. When I run orca -t I get this message: Cannot start Orca because it cannot conn to the Desktop. Please make sure the DISPLAY environment variable has been set. What could be the problem? Bertil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-re

Links2

2011-09-29 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I just upgraded to links2 v2.3-1. When I try to go to an https site, I get an SSL error. This wasn't so in previous versions. Has anybody else had the same problem? Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Missing ~/.local directory

2011-06-14 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I just installed Debian Squeeze on a machine using the espeakup installer. It worked very well. However, there is no ~/.local directory. The orca configuration files are in the ~/.orca directory. I thought that the ~/.local directory was introduced some time ago. Any ideas? Bertil

Espeakup-squeeze installer

2011-06-03 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I'm trying to use the Espeakup-squeeze installer on my laptop which doesn't have an interface which agrees with my braille display. The installer speaks allright, but far to fast for me who never uses speech if I can avoid it. How can I reduce the speech rate? Bertil -- To UNSUB

Re: Debian without screen]

2011-05-07 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:23:35AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > It seems to me like a new behavior of the dummy driver. I have reported > it on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36925 > > In the meanwhile, you'll unfortunately have to plug a screen. > > Samuel My screen didn't li

Re: Debian without screen]

2011-05-05 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:37:36PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > > > > I'm trying to run Debian without a screen. When it has finished > > loading, I get a braille display without any dots. When I check > > /var/log/gdm3/:0

Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I'm trying to run Debian without a screen. When it has finished loading, I get a braille display without any dots. When I check /var/log/gdm3/:0.log, it ends with "Fatal server error: no screens found". I'm running Sid and the problem occurred after my lates software upgrade. The ke

I've lost my b

2010-08-31 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, After upgrading, some characters don't come up when I type, b is one of them. It probably happened after I upgraded to grub 2. It happened once before on another compter, but I don't remember how I fixed it. Does anyone have any good advice? Regards, Bertil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Number of lines on the screen

2010-02-03 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Jason White wrote: Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: I used to have 25 lines on my screen, then I had thirty and now I have 37. I've a 2.6.31 kernel and I'm running Grub 0.97-59 with Grub-pc 1.98~experimental.2. screen? What are the kernel options in

Number of lines on the screen

2010-02-02 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I used to have 25 lines on my screen, then I had thirty and now I have 37. I've a 2.6.31 kernel and I'm running Grub 0.97-59 with Grub-pc 1.98~experimental.2. How do I change it back to a 25-line screen? I've been looking everywhere for a solution. I'm aware that it's not an access

Re: Book scanning frontend application?

2009-12-31 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
? Hello, and a happy New year. I'm not aware of any front end. However, I personally prefer Cuneiform to Tesseract. last time I compared the two, I found that Cuneiform supports many more languages, is faster and can produce output in many more formats. Regards, Bertil Smark Nilsson

Re: Supports BrlTTY alsamixer?

2009-02-26 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Good morning, On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Simon Bienlein wrote: Hello everyone, when I start alsamixer on my Debian Lenny system, I can not readout the volume control data. No cursor tracking is taking place here. Can the program be operated with BrlTTY and if yes, with which tricks? I use either

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:09:08PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > I have Mario's latest (2.23.4) Debian experimental Orca package installed, but > in order to help with some bugs I may need to install the latest code from > svn. > > If I try to remove gnome-orca, aptitude wants to remove various othe

Re: Iceweasel

2008-05-30 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:51:26AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:38:05PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > >> Does it give you any error message when you try to run it? > > > >

Re: Iceweasel

2008-05-30 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:38:05PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 02:13:22PM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > > I installed the latest version of Iceweasel from experimental today. > > However, it doesn/t run. Has any body else had the same experi

Iceweasel

2008-05-29 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I installed the latest version of Iceweasel from experimental today. However, I doesn/t run. Has any body else had the same experience? Bertil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latest brltty in experimental?

2008-04-22 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:19:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Tue 22 Apr 2008 09:41:22 +1000, a écrit : > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:20:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > > > Does anyone have any remaining problems with the latest version

Re: latest brltty in experimental?

2008-04-21 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:20:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > Hi. > > Does anyone have any remaining problems with the latest version of brltty > in experimental? We've been able to get some problems fixed, > and since upstream is OK with our decision of using a pre-3.10 snapshot, > I'd like to g

Net installer problem (fwd)

2008-03-29 Thread Bertil Smark Nilsson
Although I've been using various distributions of Debian for the last couple of years, I've never come across this problem. I'd appreciate any ideas regarding how to solve this problem. Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orca on Debian

2007-12-09 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote: Hello Mario, and thanks for your reply. I've now tried to install the Lenny version of Debian, but I got some problems, so I switched back to Etch. I wanted to try Lenny, because it has gnome-orca in the pool. Why don't you just cha

Pyatspi

2007-11-12 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, When I try to install python-pyatspi typing apt-get install python-pyatspi, I get the following message: INFO: using old version '/usr/bin/python2.3' Compiling /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyatspi/constants.py ... File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyatspi/constants.py", l

Re: Latest Gnome 2.18 and Orca packages for Debian?

2007-06-25 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jason White wrote: I'm interested in setting up Orca for the purpose of testing upcoming alpha/beta releases of Mozilla, using BRLTTY for braille output. Gnome 2.18 is available on unstable. However, it's advisable to use the svn version of Orca since improvements are be

Gnome 2.18

2007-04-20 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, Does anyone know of a repository where I could find version 2.18 of Gnome-session and GDM? When I upgraded to Gnome 2.18 from my normal repository, I got a mixture of 2.16 and 2.18 and the new version of at-spi doesn't like it. Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Problems running autogen.sh

2007-03-28 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Hello again, Problem solved. I deleted the orca directory structure and started again. And it worked. I found out last night that it would be a good idea to run aclocal - which I did. But I obviously had to start from scratch for the changes to take effect. Regards, Bertil -- To UNSUBS

Re: Problems running autogen.sh

2007-03-28 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Hello Luke, On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Luke Yelavich wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:37:05AM EST, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: Greetings, I'm trying to install the svn version of Orca on my Debian Unstable. However, I get the following messages: "Please add the files

Problems running autogen.sh

2007-03-28 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
directory or directly to your aclocal.m4 file." What am I missing? Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for review: debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/software.html

2007-01-23 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Hello Mario, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Mario Lang wrote: Hi. As some of you might already know, the Debian Accessibility Project webpages include a relevant software listing[1] which tries to unify all accessibility related package descriptions into one nicely sub-linked webpage. This page is *no

Gnome 2.16

2007-01-17 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, What is the easiest way to upgrade from Gnome 2.14 to Gnome 2.16 when using Etch? Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty deb update give still a eternal still unresolved problem

2006-12-19 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Mario Lang wrote: The one thing I can think of is that you probably once started brltty not with the init.d script but directly. If you just run "brltty" to start brltty, it will not create the /var/run/brltty.pid file, and "/etc/init.d/brltty start" will not re

Re: Etch rc1: BRLTTY is not installed

2006-11-29 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings mario, On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Mario Lang wrote: Now that the release of etch is nearing, and I happen to have some bits of spare time for Debian work, is there any other important issue anyone can think of that we should tackle right now? How about having a go at a .deb version of Orc

Re: brlapi

2006-11-27 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: And do you have /usr/lib/libbrlapi.so ? Samuel Yes, I do - and I did. The problem is now solved. I don't know why it didn't work. After my last message I removed BRLTTY 8dev, purged the previously removed version of BRLTTY 3.7.2 and rei

Re: brlapi

2006-11-24 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Good morning Samuel, On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: Send us the error message you get. Orca says NOTE: This script was unable to find libbrlapi.so, which is needed for braille device support. Ah, that's a good error message. Do you have libbrlapi.so.0.5 or libbrlapi.so? (as pro

Re: brlapi

2006-11-24 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Hello Samuel, On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Fri 24 Nov 2006 21:52:29 +1000, a écrit : Neither Gnopernicus nor Orca can find the device BRLTTY on my machine. I'm running Etch. I never had any problems when I was running Sarge. Any sugges

brlapi

2006-11-24 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, Neither Gnopernicus nor Orca can find the device BRLTTY on my machine. I'm running Etch. I never had any problems when I was running Sarge. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Spam

2006-09-10 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, Is anybody else receiving spam through debian.org? Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Openssl not found

2006-07-09 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I'm trying to install links2 to Debian Sarge. However, after running ./configure, I get a message saying "openssl not found". As far as I can tell, openssl is there. Any ideas? Bertil Smark Nilsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject