Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:29:47AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Still could not make gdm3 speak > > That's a bug, see > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689559 Yes. Thanks. Cheers, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Dalton, le Fri 23 Nov 2012 16:15:13 +1100, a écrit : > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:54:41PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > I can no longer access universal accessibility settings either, from the > > accessibility menu in the top panel. > > Redundant now, after reinstalling gnome this works

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:54:41PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I can no longer access universal accessibility settings either, from the > accessibility menu in the top panel. Redundant now, after reinstalling gnome this works ok. Still could not make gdm3 speak - perhaps I need to follow your

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:41:28AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Daniel Dalton, le Mon 19 Nov 2012 15:50:25 +1100, a écrit : > > 1. I've followed the instructions here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility > > However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3 > > automatically logs

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Dalton, le Mon 19 Nov 2012 15:50:25 +1100, a écrit : > 1. I've followed the instructions here: > http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility > However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3 > automatically logs me in, but I did run the commands to start > accessibility and visual acces

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > /etc/asound.conf, actually, sorry my mistake, but I guess you probably > knew anyway. Yes. > > Seems removing that file for me had no effect, and if anything things > work marginally better, but I still have pretty much the same problems, > sigh. That's unfortunate. I

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:26:02PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > Hmm, how does your /etc/asound file look, or ~/.asoundrc file? > > There is no /etc/asound file and ~/.asoundrc no longer exists - I deleted it > after PulseAudio was installed because I no longer needed

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hmm, how does your /etc/asound file look, or ~/.asoundrc file? There is no /etc/asound file and ~/.asoundrc no longer exists - I deleted it after PulseAudio was installed because I no longer needed the Alsa mixer configuration that I had put in there. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:25:53PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > This bug is still present, and is now extended to speakup which also > > crashes. > > eSpeakup is crashing every 30 seconds to the point where it is almost > > unusable. > > I tried it on my laptop and

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > This bug is still present, and is now extended to speakup which also > crashes. > eSpeakup is crashing every 30 seconds to the point where it is almost > unusable. I tried it on my laptop and it all works fine here with PulseAudio installed - no words are being broken

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:56:01PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > This works alright, but I have some remaining problems. > 1. Applications as root do not work. This means I can not use speakup > (via espeakup) and brltty sounds do not play. > Jason, do you run your pulseaudio in system-mode? I di

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:19:54PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hmm, sounds like a bit of a tricky one which might require a bit more > > research into it from me. Is there any disadvantage to use alsa for now? > > No, other than the Speech-Dispatcher bug that ought to be

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hmm, sounds like a bit of a tricky one which might require a bit more > research into it from me. Is there any disadvantage to use alsa for now? No, other than the Speech-Dispatcher bug that ought to be fixed anyway (assuming that you don't need PulseAudio features such as

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hmm, sounds like a bit of a tricky one which might require a bit more research into it from me. Is there any disadvantage to use alsa for now? I get some alsa pcm errors at boot up but that's about the only problems currently. Cheers, Dan On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:57:28AM +1100, Jason White wro

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:27:47PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > > I'm using PulseAudio under Gnome, hence not seeing the bug. > > How to use pulseaudio without everything else breaking? > I install it just now and although speech-dispatcher works ok with > pulse, everything

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:27:47PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > I'm using PulseAudio under Gnome, hence not seeing the bug. How to use pulseaudio without everything else breaking? I install it just now and although speech-dispatcher works ok with pulse, everything else is broken due to the device

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > Perhaps as Jason suggested I will contact the speech-dispatcher list. That's a good idea, and if you can install the speech-dispatcher-dbg package and obtain a backtrace from a core file, this should help to identify the cause. I'm using PulseAudio under Gnome, hence no

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > It doesn't look particularly good to me. Anyway doing what you said > works, but in the process I've found another issue - I can't use the > universal accessibility settings. You should be able to use gsetting from the shell to change the configuration however. I can't r

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:37:55AM -0500, Trevor Saunders wrote: > > 2. occasionally speech-dispatcher will crash. This requires the > > speech-dispatcher and orca instance to be killed and orca restarted. > > I couldn't find anything in the /var/log/speech-dispatcher dir, but I > > only found thi

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:27:39PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > 1. I've followed the instructions here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility > > However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3 > > automatically logs me in, but I did run the commands to s

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Trevor Saunders
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:45:45PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > Trevor Saunders wrote: > > > There's a known issue with alsa audio playback code in speech > > dispatcher that this sounds like. > > Is there a patch that could be submitted for Debian Wheezy? afaik nobody has tried to fix it :(

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Jason White
Trevor Saunders wrote: > There's a known issue with alsa audio playback code in speech > dispatcher that this sounds like. Is there a patch that could be submitted for Debian Wheezy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Trevor Saunders
> 2. occasionally speech-dispatcher will crash. This requires the > speech-dispatcher and orca instance to be killed and orca restarted. > I couldn't find anything in the /var/log/speech-dispatcher dir, but I > only found this relevant line from my syslog: > 15:10:26 debian-laptop kernel: [ 224.8

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton wrote: > 1. I've followed the instructions here: > http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility > However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3 > automatically logs me in, but I did run the commands to start > accessibility and visual accessibility both from gdm and at the us

Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm experiencing some problems with orca and speech dispatcher. I'm running debian wheezy and gnome 3. I'm just using orca out of the apt repository. Also, I'm using gnome in fallback mode currently as it seems a little more accessible to me. 1. I've followed the instructions here: http://