[orca-list] debian orca accessibility adventures; latest update

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

I got a clean lenny system using speakup and ran tasksel and selected 
desktop environment.  At least 10 packages failed to install due to 
errors.  Okay no problem because my next step was to remove gdm and all 
dependencies.  It was recommended I use startx and then run orca and all 
would be fine.  Fortunately I had sighted assistance to help today.  My 
help ran startx and told me all came up normally.  My help ran orca 
--setup and the computer remained mute.  We got everything set up in orca 
and exited and found alsa-base package was still on the computer so I ran 
alsaconf again.  I got an amixer error and later couldn't get sound 
working at all.  This little exercise killed off my sound system and I 
don't know how to get it back to life other than to wipe everything off 
the system and do another fresh install.  I'm going to do the fresh 
install to get multimedia back but I can't justify doing anything more 
with orca on debian because it's just too messy getting any accessibility 
working at all.