[orca-list] Setting up orca as a blind newbie

[arimo iki fi]

Hi

 I'm   attempting to use Orca with Ubuntu 8.4 with no success so far. I 
can access the computer via network and via console-moe screen reader. 
Speech-dispatcher  is configured and  working with spd-say. Orca version 
is
gnome-orca 2.22.1-0ubuntu1

 As there is no sighted assistance available in near future i would like 
to set up Orca myself but found it quite hard so  far. Any tips for 
following questions would be helpful:

- Can i run some setup script in  text console.
orca --text-setup will only complain
'GtkWarning: could not open display' and spit a tracebak message.

- How can i make sure i have logged in to gdm and started orca 
succesfully. After several attempts do do it 'in the dark' according the 
FAQ does not work, at least i cound not find any orca-related at the list 
of running processes.

- Is there some switch or configuration file i can edit to force orca to 
use speech dispatcher as a synth? Is there for example available a 
skeleton configuration file  for orca just to use sd as synthesizer?



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