Best way to get Edgy.

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas Ward
ly to find they have nuked the 20060902 directory which means I must start all over from scratch. Needless to say I am fuming at the two days of downloading down the toilet, and have to start from the beginning with at least the 20060905 version. Now, someone had mentioned grabbing the knot-2 ve

Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

2006-09-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Luke Yelavich on 2006/09/06 at 08:32 +1000] >Yes, brltty does have an init script. However, the core Ubuntu >development team had a lot of concerns about BrlTTY, particularly to do >with memory usage, so until a better solution was devised, they simply >prevented the init scrip

Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

2006-09-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, le Wed 06 Sep 2006 08:32:42 +1000, a écrit : > However, the core Ubuntu > development team had a lot of concerns about BrlTTY, particularly to do > with memory usage, This got fixed upstream and shouldn't happen. This should really be considered as a system daemon. Samuel ___

Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

2006-09-05 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:29:18AM EST, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Henrik Nilsen Omma on 2006/09/05 at 15:13 +0100] > > >It would be nice not to have to use root to start brltty. > > Why is the user having to start brltty for himself? This seems like a fairly > awkward thing for a use

selecting text in a gnome terminal

2006-09-05 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Would someone please point me to info on selecting text for cut and paste in the gnome terminal app? I've read the gnome accessibility docs and didn't find anything about it. Thanks in advance. Kenny ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing l

Accessible applications WIKI

2006-09-05 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Hi Joanie and all, The beginnings of a WIKI, such as the one suggested in the below message can be found here: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/AccessibleApps Hopefully, this will grow to become a valuable resource to the community over time. --Al --- Original Message - From: "Joanmarie Diggs

Providing General Support (was RE: backup applications and speech)

2006-09-05 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Henrik, all. > We obviously need to welcome the new users arriving, but we should > perhaps start thinking of ways to connect them with the wider Free > Software community for general support. I made a post [1] in our forum > relating this earlier today. But I'm interested to hear other ideas a

Fwd: Re Cannot boot latest Ubuntu Edgy

2006-09-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Am sending christian's post to the list; it's good to know I'm not the only one with this problem. btw apparently this list is set so that replies go to individuals rather than the list so you have to consciously check the address if you want to make sure it goes to the list. -- Cheryl "W

brltty placement in ubuntu

2006-09-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm noticing that brltty appears to be in /sbin on ubuntu. As the default installation for brltty has been in /bin for some time now, I'm wondering if there's a reason for the /sbin placement. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also". ___

running dappa live with speech

2006-09-05 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
When I get sorted out, I am hoping to run two versions of Ubuntu on different computers. I think I am going to use my laptop for any version that is being tested and hopefully run the most stable version on my desktop so for example run Dappa Drake on my desktop and Edgy on my laptop and when Ed

Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

2006-09-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Henrik Nilsen Omma on 2006/09/05 at 15:13 +0100] >It would be nice not to have to use root to start brltty. Why is the user having to start brltty for himself? This seems like a fairly awkward thing for a user who needs braille to have to do on his own, i.e. before he can actua

Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

2006-09-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I do know the prolific usb cable can be a bit flaky with the Mac so may have to get a keyspan. After looking at your post further though, you are talking about the x86 cd; I don't have a problem with brltty on the x86 cd, at least for Dapper Drake; it's the ppc version where there's a problem

Cannot boot latest Ubuntu Edgy

2006-09-05 Thread Christian
Hi all, I have downloaded the latest Ubuntu Edgy but it doesn't seem to boot proprely. I can hear the CD spinning for some time but nothing else seem to happen. I waited about 4-5 minutes but with no result. I then hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace but nothing happened there as well. i have been able to bo

Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

2006-09-05 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Willie Walker wrote: > On the latest Ubuntu Edgy on my x86 laptop, I get BrlTTY 3.7.2 to work > with my Baum Vario 40 display using the following command as root: > > brltty -d/dev/ttyUSB0 > It would be nice not to have to use root to start brltty. I filed an Ubuntu bug about it a few days ago

Re: Starting brltty on edgy ubuntu-powerpc

2006-09-05 Thread Willie Walker
On the latest Ubuntu Edgy on my x86 laptop, I get BrlTTY 3.7.2 to work with my Baum Vario 40 display using the following command as root: brltty -d/dev/ttyUSB0 I noticed in the past that the brand of USB<->Serial converter made a difference. The one I use is the Keyspan USA-19HS (www.keyspan.com

re: [gnopernicus on debian etch]

2006-09-05 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Rylan: The Orca that comes with Ubuntu should be pretty much unmodified. In addition, Orca v1.0.0 is now hot off the presses and should be showing up soon in various distributions. We've done the majority of our development and testing on Solaris and Ubuntu. Both of them provide a relatively

RE: need help installing orca on ubuntu 5.10?

2006-09-05 Thread Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier
Hi all Ben, you need to first configure with './configure --prefix=/usr' If you don't have root privileges would be for example './configure --prefix=/home/ben/orca' and you will need to set the PYTHONPATH envirotment to point to /home/ben/orca/lib/python2.4/site-packages'. Then you need to make

need help installing orca on ubuntu 5.10?

2006-09-05 Thread ben mustill-rose
Hi. I just downloaded orca v1.000 and put the .tar on a fumb drive which i then put into my ubuntu computer and extracted the .tar to my home directory. I tried running different files in the orca directory that it made, but none really did anything; (well some just made lodes of text flash up and