Re: [orca-list] installing speech-dispatcher not worth the bother

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

"Derek London" <derekedit hotmail com> writes:

> Last night I tried to install speech dispatcher. The best I could come up with was to get it in a state of 
> being neither here
> nor there. 

Did you read:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuHardy
Check out the section that deals with the installation of SD on Hardy.
Unfortunatelly setting up SD is a bit tricky on Hardy.

> I.e. it was installed, but it really wasn't. Basically, the only thing I accomplished was making it so I 
> couldn't
> access the orca preferences dialog. 
> So I removed it. Again, it wasn't removed, but it was
> removed. 

Sorry for my ignorance, but was it removed or not?

> Basically, the only thing I accomplished was making it so I
> still couldn't use the orca preferences dialog. I find a manual that
> said I had to set a few things, like SPEECHD_PORT but I'm not sure
> what file that's set in to begin with and it doesn't say. 

What manual? You can set up SD manually by editing the files in
/etc/speech-dispatcher and /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules, so no need
for spd-conf.
Check out the files, they are self explanatory.
And keep in mind what you've read on the Orca wiki page, mentioned
above.
Hermann