Derek London wrote:
And do I need to copy /etc/speech-dispatcher to my home directory, run
spd-conf, both, or neither?
You need to do one of them. spd-conf is the easier way.
In addition to the instructions listed, are there more directories that
should have been or need to be created? It's looking for a clients
directory. What should go in there?
Client specific settings. This directory should be created in either way.
What exactly fails and with what message?
Also curious why /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher stop doesn't stop the
speech-dispatcher daemon, I see it says stopping, but then I still have
to kill the process.
I think either your /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher contains a mysterious
"exit 0"
at the beginning or your /etc/default/speech-dispatcher contains a line
RUN_SPEECHD=no. Either of them is an invention of some distributions
which we have no controll about. Anyway, /etc/init.d/ only handles your
system-wide Speech Dispatcher and has no effect on the Speech Dispatchers
that you run under ordinary users.
All in all, I'm still largely unclear what I need to be doing, but the
most important thing is getting orca to see speech-dispatcher when it is
installed, or not see speech-dispatcher when it is removed so I can use
the configuration dialog without crashing orca.
Did you run the spd-conf diagnostics? What does it say about the python
library?
Does it work? What is the result of the following command?
env | grep SPEECHD_PORT
With regards,
Hynek