Orca Using orca at gdm

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

I am looking at why orca does not start when one proesses ctrl+s at gdm 
screen on Solaris.

I am using orca 2.17.4 and I have got to the stage where the
orca process, /usr/bin/python -c import orca.orca; orca.orca.main() -n 
-d main-window
and freetts-synthesis-driver process start.
However the orca process exits with _exit(50).

If I stop gdm and restart it leaving freetts-synthesis-driver running 
then the orca process does not terminate.

This suggest that the problem may be timing out waiting for the speech 
driver to be initialised. I have noticed that shortly before the orca 
process terminates it receives a SIGALRM signal.

Help solving this would be greatly appreciated.

Padraig