Re: [orca-list] systemrequirements for orca?

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hello,
On Mo, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:03:17 +0100, Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> I found that the behavior of Orca under Ubuntu seems sometimes 
> unpredictable:

Sometimes?
Let's compare orca to other screenreaders!
(not jaws).
Perhaps nvda??

> Actually I use Gutsy on a 2,6 Ghz laptop with 512 MB RAM and about 900 
> MB swap, and I face no real sluggisness. Some processes start a bit 
> slower, but nothing worth to worry about.

I don't think so. Sure it works you can get many feedback from the
supported apps but serious (fast) work is not posible "in my opionion".

> In last spring I used Feisty on my desktop 1 Ghz 256 MB RAM (shared) and 
> 2 GB of swap. The performance was a true catastrophy. Everything was 
> sluggish and the swap got filled up to nearly 1 GB.
> Since people who use a similar machine as my desktop, have reported no 
> major problems and people who use a much better machine than my laptop 
> complain sluggisness, I don't know what's going on with Orca and 
> Ubuntu/DEbian.
> In an Ubuntu forum I read about problems with NVIDIA graphic cards, and 
> maybe there are issues with other hardware components.

Luke wrote that gnome is only slow if you start orca so it must be a
problem with the accessibility stuff not of the graphic card.
Perhaps one of the main developers can tell us 
something about these problems?
Regards
Halim



> Hermann
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