Re: can't get multimedia working with any browser

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Thomas,

> I would be happy to try the cvs release. However, is the
> version in cvs still compatible with Gnome 2.8?
> Alot of us out here are running Fedora 3 or Mandriva latest, and 2.10 is
> still on the way.
> I would hate to have to do a major upgrade/compile of gnome since i find 2.8
> reasonable with accessibility, but the gnopernicus constant speech issues
> makes me want to resolve that problem asap.

Sun Solaris 10 is based on GNOME 2.6 with accessibility bits (at-spi, 
Gnopernicus, etc.) from more or less CVS head at that moment in time.  Our 
forthcoming GNU/Linux release is the same - GNOME 2.6.x + current 
accessibility bits.  Gnopernicus 0.11.1 just went into our latest internal 
Linux build, which otherwise is still using GNOME 2.6.x.

No promises of course, but this does suggest GNOME 2.8 should be an OK base 
for the lastest Gnopernicus.


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

> Thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Korn" <Peter Korn Sun COM>
> To: "Thomas Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>
> Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: can't get multimedia working with any browser
>
>
>
> > Hi Thomas, Jude,
> >
> > We've found a number of problems with speech on our systems (FreeTTS), and
> > with the general speech subsystem going away for various reasons (not all
> > tracked down).  To best address this, the very latest versions of
>
> Gnopernicus
>
> > in CVS (as of the last ~3 weeks and most recently a fix late last week)
>
> now
>
> > aggressively restart speech if it ever dies.
> >
> > Perhaps this is at least some of the problems you are encountering?  If
>
> so,
>
> > you might try the latest code...
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibility team
> >
> >
> > Thomas Ward wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jude,
> > > I can tell you that your problem is not unique, and it doesn't seam to
> be
>
> > > memory related. I have ran Fedora and Mandriva with systems of 512 MB or
> > > greater and Gnopernicus 0.9.12 and greater seam to high dive for no
> reason
>
> > > at all.
> > > An example I was opening evolution like I did several times that day,
> and
>
> > > suddenly gnopernicus bit the dust. No speech, no responce, and wouldn't
> even
>
> > > exit properly. I crashed out of x, logged back in, and gnopernicus says
> it
>
> > > can't load festival.
> > > I ended up rebooting the machine. Which I do about four times a day on
> > > average do to gnopernicus high diving and not coming back for one reason
> or
>
> > > another.
> > > To bad I can't use mozilla, Open Office, and other gui apps at the shell
> as
>
> > > I would happily stay there with speakup or something than put up
> gnopernicus
>
> > > crashing about 5 times aday.
> > > Anyway, I wouldn't recommend using Firefox as it simply doesn't work
> with
>
> > > gnopernicus. I am currently adding multimedia for Mandriva, and I am
> hoping
>
> > > to plug it in to Sun Mozilla. I'll be sure to let you know if I get
> > > something reasonable working in x.
> > > Hth.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel shellworld net>
> > > To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 11:56 PM
> > > Subject: can't get multimedia working with any browser
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Having downloaded and installed mailcap-stuff.tar.gz I first tried
> > > > listening to a realplayer stream using lynx.  No go, display wasn't set.
> > > > Okay no problem I figure I can go into xwindows and use gnopernicus and
> > > > maybe firefox or epiphany.  Maybe one of those browsers will work but
> > > > hitting the f7 key to try to get some screen output seems on this system
> > > > to actually be the crash gnopernicus immediately key.  I could
> understand
>
> > > > the desire of gnopernicus to do a high dive if all that was on this
> system
>
> > > > was 128MB of ram which was the case earlier this week.  However there's
> > > > now 416MB of ram available in lower memory and this is happening.  This
> is
>
> > > > a fedora core 3 installation that has been modified for multimedia via
> the
>
> > > > extra yum repositories.  The network was opened with ifup ppp0 before
> > > > startx ever ran.  So what prerequisite configuration of gnome did I most
> > > > likely neglect?
> > > >
> > > >
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