Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian

2006-08-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
The error messages can be found in: /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log Today I found out the ati monitor and card that had caused so much trouble had a falling out. The monitor is dead and I can easily take it to a place where it can be donated for recycling and the monitor was replaced with a Gateway EV910

Re: Update on my problem with starting Ubuntu

2006-08-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not try getting to the boot line and typing: linux ks=http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/ubuntu/ks.cfg don't hit the return after you type that either, hit the space bar and then hit f5 hit down arrow 3 times and hit enter key twice and have your computer connected to the internet. Had ubuntu been

Re: Ubuntu Dapper Drake for AMD64 and speech

2006-08-27 Thread Willie Walker
> Is anyone else able to run gnome-speech under 64 bit Linux i.e. run the > test-speech application without errors? Can't do it on Linux, but it works great on Solaris on both 64-bit SPARC and 64-bit x86 hardware. Will On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 19:12 +0200, Roland Zitzke wrote: > > since speech do

Re: **Fwd: Re: Ubuntu Dapper Drake for AMD64 and speech

2006-08-27 Thread Roland Zitzke
> is with gnome-speech, which seems to have problems with Bonobo > activation on 64-bit Linux boxes. OpenSolaris doesn't suffer from the > 64-bit oddities, so you might consider it, or you might just install a > 32-bit Linux distribution on your 64-bit box until we figure out what's > going wrong w

Re: Ubuntu Dapper Drake for AMD64 and speech

2006-08-27 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Roland. I ran across this (or at least something similar) when I first tried Orca a few months ago. Then I read the following on the Orca wiki: --- Why doesn't Orca run on 64-bit Linux distributions? Orca itself should run on 64-bit Linux distributions. The main problem is with gnome-speech,

Re: Ubuntu Dapper Drake for AMD64 and speech

2006-08-27 Thread Roland Zitzke
> since speech doesn't start up either, and since others are reporting not > being able to start up with the "blindness" accessibility choice, I'm > thinking there's more of a problem than just brltty and/or festival. > > As far as I've tracked down the problem there must be something going wr

Ubuntu Dapper Drake for AMD64 and speech

2006-08-27 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, Has anyone managed to run Gnopernicus on Ubuntu 5.1 or later for AMD64? I couldn't get gnome-speech to work on a previous 5.1 installation which runs stable otherwise. Now I am trying to start the life CD of Dapper Drake with the blindnes option (by pressing f5 on the first screen and then s

Another update on the non-starting Ubuntu 6.06.1 cd

2006-08-27 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks, I managed to start Brltty in a shell and could see the error message that X produced. Turns out that X thinks i have a non-standard screen, which i have. That is, my screen seems not to be supported. Is there any start parameter somewhere that one could use in order to get a more generic

Update on my problem with starting Ubuntu

2006-08-27 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi people, As i wrote in an earlier letter, i can't seem to start the Ubuntu 6.06.1 live cd with accessibility options for blindness enabled. It looks as X doesn't start correctly, because i'm in a terminal window, and when i try the command to close Gnome, (alt+f4) i get a text terminal, i know th

upgrading Ubuntu

2006-08-27 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
I am thinking of upgrading Ubuntu from Dappa Drake to Edgy. If I were to do it on my laptop which is the only PC I have with Linux on would I get speech during the upgrade and can it also be done without having to upgrade over the Internet as although I have a wireless network card for my Local