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

["Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz gmail com>]

Hi,

Now that you've replaced your sound card, it would seem that for the most 
part, we could scratch off the possibility of a  sound issue, except perhaps 
for ESD?  If you look under preferences/sound in the gnome applications 
menu, is ESD enabled?  If not, enabling it should allow for better handling 
of sounds.  Please note however, that on some machines, I have seen a 
situation where enabling ESD actually causes sound to go away completely, 
until the option is again disabled.  So, unless you have Braille, or some 
other recourse, you might want to approach this option with caution.


I assume other applications, such as gnome-terminal are reading 
automatically, right?

If you haven't tried this yet, one thought might be to attempt running Orca 
as well as GAIM from a different user account.  Doing this should cause 
GAIM  to utilize its default settings, ruling out any changes you may have 
inadvertently made to the UI in GAIM preferences.

Best of luck,

--Al




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <joanmarie diggs carroll org>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: Orca Incoming messages in Gaim not being read/displayed


> 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.
> >
> > Code
> > ----- 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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