Re: [orca-list] Even after a system reinstalation, Orca does not speak

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Have you tried testing the sound through more traditional means?  Try
playing a music CD.  Might need sihted help again.  It's starting to sound
like your .pulse directory in your home folder needs to go.  I hesitate to
tell you to do it since I can't say if Pulse will automatically create you a
new one or not.  If it doesn't, you could always do a dpkg-reconfigure
pulseaudio.  Don't try that unless as a last resort, however, since messing
around with pulse can really break your system immensely.  

Oh, and that Goodbye message is from Orca, for sure.  It's probably the
lightdm user, if you are running a Ubuntu after 11.10.  If before, it's the
gdm user.  It tells me that your personal user account has something wrong
with the sound settings but that the system itself can get sound.  It's
PulseAudio again restricting sounds on a per user basis.  I personally do
not use it anymore because of all its quirks.  You will have to either fix
it directly or get rid of that user account.  ,.  If you have to reinstall,
I recommend reformatting the home directory this time.  If you want the
learning experience of separate home partitions, you may wish to consider
doing that in a nonproduction environment like a virtual machine until you
have it down.

Best regards,
Alex M

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Bill
Dengler
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 4:22 PM
To: luciano de souza
Cc: orca-list
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Even after a system reinstalation, Orca does not
speak

I never remember 10.04 saying "goodbye". Could this be Orca?

Bill
On 02/05/13 17:20, luciano de souza wrote:
> Oh! These messages were very important for me. It's nice to know how 
> to test the system.
> I did: espeak hello. Orca does not say anything. I did: spd-say hello.
> Nothing is spoken again.
> The conclusion is that the system does not have sound. I confess it's 
> a surprising conclusion. When the system is turned off, the sound of 
> good bye is listened.
> I can't use ctrl+alt+right and left to change the volume. Here, it is 
> used to change among desktops.
> Before this situation, I ask:
> 1. Does someone have any additional tip?
> 2. Is there a way to change the volume or turn on and off the sound by
terminal?
> 3. Is there terminal commands to create a brand new user, allowing 
> that a new Home folder is created?
>
>
>
> 2013/2/4, luciano de souza <luchyanus gmail com>:
> > Hello listers,
> > Suddenly, the sound disappered. Having restarted my Ubuntu 10.10, the 
> > sound keeped off. Without a help of a sighted-people, I could not 
> > enable the sound. For this reason, I decided to reinstall the system.
> > The process was done successfully, but after it, I have a bad news:
> > the sound was still off. As I am using a customized iso and I have 
> > used it before, I am sure orca is active. In spite of that, it 
> > doesn't speak.
> > I have a partition for system files and another to the Home. When the 
> > reinstalation was performed, the Home is entirely preserved. The 
> > conclusion is that Orca does not speak by virtue of settings placed 
> > in Home folders.
> > Becose I won't have external helps, I would like to retify this 
> > problem by means of commandlines. It's eazy to type without see. I 
> > suppose that, deleting Orca preferences or sound preferences at Home 
> > folders, the sound will be enabled.
> > Another solutions could be: "To create another profile by terminal 
> > commands". A blank profile won't have previous stored settings.
> > I can also copy the content of my Home and format this partition.
> > Howerver, if I do it, all the advantage of a separated partition will 
> > be lost.
> > In short, what could I do to solve this problem?
> > Any help is appreciated.
> > Regards,
> > Luciano

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