Re: Orca Using orca at gdm

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

17 seconds is indeed a very very very long time.  If you launch Orca
from an xterm in a logged in desktop environment, does it also take 17
seconds for speech to appear?  If so, what kind of hardware are you
using?

Will

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:37 +0000, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> I found timeoutTime in settings.py and when I changed that to 20 then 
> orca started speaking to me at login. It seems to take about 17 seconds 
> from whenI rpess Ctrl+s to when orcs starts speaking.
>
> That sounds like a very long time.
>
> Padraig
>
> Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > 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
>
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