Re: ./configure information (was Re: Orca Installation problem)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> I want to thank Willie and Willem for all the help. I have some  
> success
> to report! I managed to get the orca-setup program to run properly.  
> The
> prefix=/usr command on the configuration did the job. It even spoke to
> me at the end!

Yeah!  This is a great step.

> Unfortunately, when I ran orca afterward I received the
> following lines:
>
> Changing debug level to 1000
> Changed debug level to 1000
> Could not initialize connection to Braille
>
> Then it just hangs there not apparently doing anything.

My guess is that the festival-synthesis-driver is hanging.  Can you  
check to see if you can still interact with it using the "test- 
speech" application?  If it seems to be hung, kill any process with  
'festival' in its name and try running Orca again.  If this continues  
to be a problem, it probably merits further investigation in gnome- 
speech.  :-(

> magnification. As a side note, I noticed someone else had trouble with
> festival and that's the only TTS engine I have installed. What's the
> preferred TTS engine for Orca? Also, I couldn't find a QUICKSTART file
> anywhere, just the TODO and README.

Dang.  I probably forgot to put the QUICKSTART in the list of files  
to include in the tarball.  But...that's OK.  I think we should  
migrate to the web page and WIKI:

  http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/

It's very nascent at the moment, but hopefully members of the  
community will help us fill out specifics for various distributions.

Will