Re: Orca Incoming messages in Gaim not being read/displayed

["Cody" <churst31 verizon net>]

 the 2 machines were a desktop EMachine with onboard sound which did not 
work, and an Averatec laptop with onboard sound which did work. hmmmmm go 
figure. Your guess is as good as mine.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <joanmarie diggs carroll org>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Orca Incoming messages in Gaim not being read/displayed


> Hi Cody.  Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between the
> machine where it works and where it doesn't?
>
> I can actually reproduce this problem on two machines -- one desktop
> with a cheap mobo and onboard sound and one laptop (i.e. onboard sound).
> I'm wondering if having a decent, dedicated sound card will make a
> difference.  I'm not yet ready to install linux on my third PC (which
> has such a card), but I may run out and get a sound card for the other
> desktop....
>
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 15:48 -0700, Cody wrote:
> >   hi Joany
> >
> >   This was me who brought this up. I was running fc5. Orca did not read
> > messages on one machine but did on another so go figure. but I did notice
> > though what Mike said, sounds will mess with orca's speech output so 
> > turning
> > them off will most likely work. I did have a few occasions that orca 
> > totally
> > took over the gaim sounds and read incoming messages, but this was only 
> > if I
> > was lucky...so, do that and see if that works.
> >
> > Cody
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Mike Pedersen" <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>
> > To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 3:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: Orca Incoming messages in Gaim not being read/displayed
> >
> >
> > > Hello Joanie,
> > >> Incoming messages in Gaim are not being read/displayed by Orca on my
> > >> computer.  In looking at the list archives I see that this was brought
> > >> up in May.  But I don't see any resolution, nor do I see it mentioned 
> > >> in
> > >> Bugzilla.  Is this a known issue?
> > >>
> > >> I'm running Orca 0.2.5 and Gaim 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 6.06/Dapper Drake.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Does this happen with all      messages or just the first one in a chat
> > > session?  I have seen where once in a great while I won't hear the 
> > > first
> > > message in a chat session.  You might also want to turn off the sound
> > > effects in Gaim.  I've seen on some machines where the sounds will
> > > interrupt the speech for the new message.
> > > Mike
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