[orca-list] Really bazaar issue when installing Ubuntu

["Chris Gilland" <clgilland07 earthlink net>]

OK, just downloaded the live CD of Gutsy Ubuntu I386 to run on x86 
platforms.

I booted to the CD, then hit F5, 3, enter, enter.

That worked fine, and I was presented adventurally with the Gnome desktop. 
This was all fine, until Orca tried to come up with E-Speak and start 
talking.  All I basicly heard was the phoneme for the letter w, just the... 
wuh sound.  It didn't even get to the, ehh,  sound in welcome.  When I did 
an insert+q, my internal pc speaker did not beep, which indicated to me Orca 
was running.  Not as root quite obviously, but none the less, it was 
running.  I hit insert+q again, and then heard a beep so I knew it was then 
unloaded.  By the way, when I did insert+q initially, the first time, I did 
not receive the quit Orca confirmation dialog.  To me, I found this even 
more bazaar than Orca not speaking.  I then preceded by doing alt+F2, to 
bring up the run dialog.  I typed:
gnome-terminal

and hit enter.

Once with the very little vision I have, I could see that had came up 
successfully, I then typed:
sudo su

and pressed enter.

Then I did insert+q again, and of corse didn't get a confirmation, in fact I 
got a beep indicating Orca was not running anyway.  So, I then typed:
orca --no-setup --disable main-window&

I then pressed enter.  I deffinently then heard Welcome to Orca, although 
the Terminal window still would not speak.

I found that really really odd.  I typed:
ubiquity
and hit enter.

The installer did come up, but again, Orca did not read it.

I tried alt tabbing with no success.  I've control page upped and down with 
no result.

I did alt+control+d to move to the desktop and then tried arrowing around. 
Nothing.

I held in the power button for about 5 seconds, once off, I rebooted to the 
CD and repeated the above process.  I have tried this now about four times 
and concecutively have been able to produce the same results every single 
time.  I don't know what the heck the deal is.  My sound card is deffinently 
being seen and detected correctly, so it isn't a sound issue.  As Orca was 
speaking there very temporarily.

I'm almost beginning to wonder if Gutsy is still really somewhat buggy.  Has 
anyone else had this issue, and if so, what the heck did you do to get 
around it?

I'm totally stumped.  This is incredibly strange.

Chris.