Hello all: I am trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 700M and am presented with the following problem. I place the cd into the drive, press enter for English at the language prompt, press down arrow once to get to the install menu, press f5 then 3 for the screenreader profile, and then press enter twice to boot the CD. The CD seems to boot to the installer and no speech is heard. I then restart the system, Press Enter at the language prompt for English, press f5, 3, enter, and enter again to boot into live cd mode. The cd boots and the login music is played and after the cd stopps working Orca does not start. I press alt+f2 and type "orca" and orca starts up and places me in the preferences dialog. I press the ok butten to get out of this and control+alt+d to get to the desktop pain. I look at the properties of the installer icon to varify that ubiquity is still used as the installer, exit this dialog and press "alt+f2", type "gnome-terminal" to bring up a terminal window and then enter the following commands. "sudo su" A # is displayed at the end of the prompt to verify I am in the root account. I then type Insert+q and select the quit option to quit orca. I then type "orca --no-setup --disable main-window&". The "Welcome to orca" message is heard. I then type "ubiquity" and press enter. The cd responds and is working which indicates that ubiquity is loading but no speech is heard from orca. The same cd works as advertised on an Aopen white box system. Place the cd in the drive, Press no keys, cd boots and the login music plays. Place the cd in the drive, press enter at the language prompt for english, press f5, 3, enter, enter to boot the screen reader profile. The login music is played and orca starts speaking. Place the cd in the drive, Press enter for english at the language prompt, press down arrow for the installer menu, press f5, 3, enter and enter to boot the screen reader profile and the installer starts talking. Can anyone give me an idea why the cd is not talking during the install on the 700M either from the install menu or doing the sudo su, orca --no-setup --disable main window& hack from a terminal window?I should mention that 7.04 works fine, Orca comes up talking when booted with the screen reader profile, and the sudo su orca --no-setup --disable main-window& hack works as well. With the 7.10 cd it is necessary to type "orca" in the run box when the cd is booted into the screen reader profile. Running a terminal and the commands to launch the ubiquity installer also work.
Thanks in advance for anyone's help. Doug -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
