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

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs carroll org>]

Well, my guess was wrong. <grin>  I just installed a Sound Blaster
Audigy 4, disabled the onboard sound via the bios, and I still don't get
speech for incoming messages in Gaim.  

So what are others' guesses?  Is this some sound card driver issue that
I might be able to solve by reading how-tos, or is this more likely an
Orca issue that is out of my control?

Thanks again and take care.
Joanie


On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:02 -0700, Cody wrote:
>   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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