[orca-list] introduction

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

I'm Jude Dashiell from Southern Maryland.  I'm a computer programmer and 
do things with Linux at home.  I have orca up and running on ubuntu feisty 
fawn now. I don't yet orca up and running on debian but am in process of 
getting that sorted out.  Debian I run lenny and speakup until orca can 
come up talking and I update packages regularly. I have X coming up on 
Debian but apparently because /etc/ttytype is missing, X cannot figure out 
what to use for a display.  Anyway, I had quite a few surprises in getting 
my debian box this far.  The consolation prize is that another list member 
Florian Kulzer over on debian-user who tried some of the things he 
suggested to me also ran into identical problems.  Honestly I don't know 
how any debian user ever got X working, the update-fonts-alias package 
essential to create a fonts.alias file in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc will 
create no such file even for root user.  That file is the first default 
font used by X and having it missing gets cannot open default font "fixed" 
error message as the xserver system crashes and burns.  Only way I got 
around that was Florian sent me a copy of his fonts.alias file and I 
installed it.  removing and purging packages has no positive effect 
either.  I tried it with xfonts-base and then reinstalled it from the 
online repository.