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OK, I now get speech, but things are still broken.
If I start orca normally, I get no speech. If I use "orca --no-setup", it works.
However, as soon as I try and enter orca preferences, it dies and I have to
restart it.
A look into the sound configuration in gnome showed
that some of the "sound events" were set to use alsa, some pulseaudio, and some
autodetect. I tried setting to pulseaudio, but I got some kind of message about
can't connect (I had a human screen reader for this who is not here now).
So, I set everything to autodetect. It works, but I cannot hear any system
sounds like the login sound etc. I do hear the initial sound (before login) from
the login window.
How do I find out what sound system / drivers are
being used? I don't dare mess with the sound stuff much without
sighted help since I could suddenly loose all speech and not be able to get it
back. Can I hack some of this sound/audio stuff via ssh from my
windows machine?
-- Rich
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:14
PM
Subject: [orca-list] Orca dies after the
initial "welcome to orca" andtest-speech works
I'm using ubuntu hardy.
I've rebuild orca, gail, atspi, atk a number of
times from svn.
I've deleted my ~/.orca
test-speech does work - even with
viavoice.
The entire startup message spoken is "welcom to
orca. starting orca preferences."
Question: do I need to explicitly say
"--prefix=/usr" on all my ./configure or ./autogen.sh runs when building atk,
gail, atspi, and orca? I noticed that if I leave it off from the
autogen.sh run in the orca tree, it places stuff in /usr/local. So, I rebuild
orca using prefix=/usr with no luck. I guess I'll try rebuilding everything
with explicit prefix=/usr but fear I'll have no better luck. I dont'
remember having to do this in ubuntu 7.10.
Logginng in from ssh shows two orca processies
running; is this normal? Killing and restarting does no
good.
Sometimes, when I hit control+alt+backspace to
return to the login prompt, I get about a half second of speech; can't make
out what its trying to say because it dies due to the logout.
I'm using gnome-speech - at least I've not been
able to start orca so haven't changed this from the default, which I assume is
gnome-speech. I'm looking into setting up speech-dispatcher, but not sure it
will help. Since test-speech works, I'm assuming the problem is not with the
speech system, but some other misconfiguration or something bad about my
ubuntu installation. I upgraded from 7.10 (orca was working fine before
I upgraded).
What else can I try?
-- Rich
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