Re: [orca-list] Sound problem in Fedora 9

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

I don't recall breakage in the original F-9 Orca. But, regardless, you
can get updated Orca rpms for Fedora 9 at the Speakup Modified.

Janina


Alonzo writes:
> Hello Lars,
>
> the version of Orca that ships with Fedora9 is broken. so you will have 
> to compile it form source or perhaps try to do yum update orca or just 
> yum update and see if that will work. I'm not sure if they have upgraded 
> orca in Fedora9, but there is a much more updated version in the latest 
> upcoming release fedora10. What happens when launching orca is that it 
> crashes and you are no longer able to hear speech. You can install the 
> following with yum
> intltool and gnome-common
> so you woudl do
> yum install intltool gnome-common
> That should get orca working. If not, you may want to check out the 
> latest version of the gnome 2.22.3 branch from svn and download  orca. 
> You should then change to the orca directory and then do
> ./autogen.sh
> make
> make install
> and orca should work.
>
> alonzo
> ps-
> the address to get orca for gnome2.22 with svn and command to execute
> svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/branches/gnome-2-22 orca
> You could try  the latest orca
> svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca
> I'm not sure how well the latest release will work though.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars "Bjørndal"" 
> <lars bjorndal broadpark no>
> To: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:58 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Sound problem in Fedora 9
>
>
> > Hello, list!
> >
> > I've recently installed a Fedora 9 system on an IBM Thinkpad X61. I
> > used a livecd for this, and then I groupinstalled "Gnome Desktop
> > Environment" to be sure to have all that stuff in place.
> >
> > BTW, a strange thing is that, after the installation, the
> > /etc/modprobe.conf file is empty.
> >
> > Playing sound from console works, after uninstalling pulseaudio as
> > suggested on speakupmodified.org. However, under GNOME, I have some
> > problems. The welcome sound for instance is not played. If I however
> > press alt-f2 and do mplayer file.wav, it plays fine. The same if I
> > use aplay. Here comes the real problem:
> >
> > If I try to start orca --setup, and I previously have played something
> > e.g. with mplayer in the same session, the first message is spoken
> > from Orca. If, however, I start orca without playing some sounds
> > before that, orca doesn't speak at all.
> >
> > To get sound working for all users under console, I edited
> > /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms: I added
> >
> >  <sound>=/dev/dsp* /dev/snd/*
> >
> > and
> >
> >  <console> 0666 <sound> 0600 root
> >
> > Is there similar steps to perform to get sound working properly under
> > GNOME on a Fedora 9 system?
> >
> > Lars
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> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca
>
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