[orca-list] Installing Orca

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

I've tried the instructions at:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuEdgyEft

The problem is that when I sudo su it doesn't read anything. When I then
quit with insert+q and restart orca from the root terminal session I just
initiated, I only get speech while not in the terminal. If I type "ubiquity"
in the terminal I get no speech.
This started to work for me once, then ubiquity stopped speaking so I
rebooted. Now things have just gotten flakier and flakier each time I
reboot.
So much for linux' stability. Y sure linux is fine, but this gnome thing is
a  horrific beast. Its amazing it works for anyone...

Sorry, this is just rediculously frustrating...
-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tomas Cerha" <
cerha brailcom org>
To: "Guy Schlosser" <
guyster bex net>
Cc: <
orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] no speech

> Guy Schlosser wrote:
> > I then got excited, added the module (espeak, not espeak-generic),
> > set it as my output module, then rebooted.
>
> Just restarting Speech Dispatcher is often better.  If you prevoiusly
> installed SD from a debian/ubuntu package, a simple command will do the
> job:
>
> /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher restart
>
> Note, that the current version of Orca will hang when SD is restarted
> like that.  This is fixed by my patch at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455308
.  Without this patch,
> you should kill orca first and start it after restarting SD.
>
> > Now, I have no speech, even when I switch back to
> > gnome-speech.
>
> That's quite strange.  Did Gnome Speech work for you before?  Anyway,
> you should be able to test whether Speech Dispatcher works simply using
> the spd-say command.  For example:
>
> spd-say hello
>
> Does this command say something or produce an error?
>
> You may also want to turn on Orca debugging in ~/.orca/user-settings.py
> by removing the leading hash at line:
>
> #orca.debug.debugLevel = orca.debug.LEVEL_CONFIGURATION
>
> Running orca from terminal may then reveal what's wrong.
>
> You may also try reconfiguring orca by running orca -t.
>
> > I want to compile the new
> > Espeak, just so I have the most recent installed.  Do I do
> > ./configure, make, and make install there too?
>
> Yes, if you had the required dependencies installed in your previous
> configure step, the module should be built automatically.  Check the
> configure output...
>
> Hope that helps, Tomas
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