Re: [orca-list] trouble running Orca

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

Hi Willie,

> You might try running the following via Alt+F2 to see what happens:
>
>    python -c "import gtk; gtk.gdk.display_get_default()"

Thanks; that helped.  The problem had nothing to do with Orca.  I had 
upgraded Python to 2.5 without recompiling some modules (Gentoo didn't 
stop me frolm doing this), and it couldn't find cairo because it was 
compiled for 2.4 but not 2.5.  I had run into similar problems before.

Now I'm running into another problem where it starts and says "Welcome to 
Orca!" via eSpeak but won't say anything else.  If I stop X, then it 
starts to say something else, so I think that it is a gnome-speech/eSpeak 
problem.  I vaguely remember someone else on the list having problems when 
upgrading eSpeak to 1.26.  If I run test-speech, it says that it can't 
activate the eSpeak driver.  I tried changing eSpeak to Festival in 
orca.settings.speechServerInfo in ~/orca/user-settings.py, hoping that it 
would make Festival load, but it still tries to use eSpeak.

I also see "anykey" printed to the console repeatedly, but I'm not sure 
where this is coming from.