Re: [orca-list] I think my installed Ubuntu and Orca is just plainunstable...

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bob Tinney wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> I'm kind of in the same boat that you are.  I have a dual boot system with
> xp and Ubuntu and I find that Orca has a long! way to go.  One of the neat

Why? Yes firefox still needs some improvements but maybe that's because 
I'm 
on a slow machine.)
Anyway I know lots of people are working on firefox and it keeps getting 
better...

So what problems are you having?

Perhaps you should use a command line as well with speakup so you can do 
things that aren't possible with orca.

I use both and haven't used windows for 4 months.

> things about Ubuntu is that when I installed it, it found everything in my
> system with out a hitch, but doing things in Ubuntu with Orca is another

Yes that is a nice feature of ubuntu. Like with the livecd it just works. 
Also it is very easy to get a talking system up and running. Then you can 
configure brltty with speech. Once brltty is going and orca is working 
correctly you could probably install speakup...

 > matter.
> When I play mp3 files with the total movie player, orca stops speaking while
> the music is playing, but the voice will come back after you close the
> player.  This used to crash orca, but after the latest updates, I'm no
> longer getting sound error messages, but I still can't play two sounds at
> the same time.  I'm hoping that Gnome 2.2 when it comes out, will fix some

HRm, sounds like an alsa problem.
Is orca and your player using alsa?
I believe there is instructions on the orca faq on how to make orca work 
with alsa.
What synth are you using?
And maybe try a player that supports alsa. (That you are sure does.)
Perhaps just run mplayer from a command line to test.
Then get rythem box going...

> of these problems including updating orca.

What do you mean?
You should just check out from svn and install any patches then build 
orca.
What is wrong with this?

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