Re: [orca-list] Why can't speech work on some systems from Ubuntu liveCD?

["Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>]

It is real odd. I did manage to make it work real sluggishly to reinstall 
after my bad luck with apt-get dist-upgrade locking up. I'll have to try 
that again so I can upgrade it to Feisty. Downloading might be faster than 
that slow CD drive in that box.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Why can't speech work on some systems from Ubuntu 
liveCD?


> > Last week, I finally got sighted assistance to install Ubuntu Edgy
> > Eft
>
> Was that Edgy Eft or Feisty Fawn?  You're better off with Feisty at the
> moment.
>
> > 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.
>
> Strange indeed.  I wonder if there's something (e.g., some sort of
> special audio driver) that was installed that was not present when you
> booted to the live CD.
>
> > 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?
>
> I wish I knew better what was going on.  It sounds like you analyzed it
> more thoroughly than I might have, though.
>
> Other orca-listers, have you seen similar problems when doing a
> sightless install of Ubuntu?
>
> Will