Re: [orca-list] speech dispatcher - still confused

[Hynek Hanke <hanke brailcom org>]

Derek London wrote:
> And do I need to copy /etc/speech-dispatcher to my home directory, run 
> spd-conf, both, or neither?

You need to do one of them. spd-conf is the easier way.

> In addition to the instructions listed, are there more directories 
> that should have been or need to be created? It's looking for a 
> clients directory. What should go in there?

Client specific settings. This directory should be created in either way.
What exactly fails and with what message?

> Also curious why /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher stop doesn't stop the 
> speech-dispatcher daemon, I see it says stopping, but then I still 
> have to kill the process. 

I think either your /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher contains a mysterious 
"exit 0"
at the beginning or your /etc/default/speech-dispatcher contains a line
RUN_SPEECHD=no. Either of them is an invention of some distributions
which we have no controll about. Anyway, /etc/init.d/ only handles your
system-wide Speech Dispatcher and has no effect on the Speech Dispatchers
that you run under ordinary users.

> All in all, I'm still largely unclear what I need to be doing, but the 
> most important thing is getting orca to see speech-dispatcher when it 
> is installed, or not see speech-dispatcher when it is removed so I can 
> use the configuration dialog without crashing orca.

Did you run the spd-conf diagnostics? What does it say about the python 
library?
Does it work? What is the result of the following command?

env | grep SPEECHD_PORT


With regards,
Hynek