[orca-list] Why can't speech work on some systems from Ubuntu live CD?

["Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>]

Last week, I finally got sighted assistance to install Ubuntu Edgy Eft on my 
old Pentium 3 1 gig machine with 256 mb of ram. I used the f5 menu and hit 3 
for screen reader and enter twice only to get no sound at all. I had my 
assistant play around and we found the sound test thing and that worked. I 
think he also put software mixing on as we tried everything to get the 
speech including putting orca in the alt-f2 run box. I'm sure Orca had to 
have loaded as I had him verify I chose screen reader. The strange thing is 
that after he installed it for me and we rebooted and logged in, speech came 
up like there was never a problem.
I understand speech won't work during the install itself unless I quit orca, 
run it as root, and then run the installer, but it never worked at the 
desktop so I could accessibly even do that. That box has an SBLive Value 
sound card in it. What is wrong with that machine that won't let me have a 
sightless install? In the event of needing a reinstall, is there another way 
I can make it work?
Thanks.