[orca-list] desktop and menus not speaking

[Guy Schlosser <guyster bex net>]

Hi all, I have a machine running Ubuntu Hardy, and am having a 
problem with it.  After updating last night (even trying a 
dist-upgrade just a few minutes ago), my desktop and menus refuse to 
speak.  The weirdness of this whole thing is, that if I enter into 
Thunderbird, or go to gnome-terminal, I get speech in those 
programs.  When I try and close them, I hear goodbye and no 
speech.  This machine is running 2.23.90pre, and the only reason it 
hasn't been updated any further, is that I recall some discussion 
about not being able to compile orca 2.23.90 or later, because of (I 
think it was libtool, inittool) being out of date.  Was there ever a 
solution?  Is there a way to successfully compile orca 2.24.0 
successfully without upgrading to intrepid alpha?  Although I'm not 
totally against doing that, the person using this machine loves her 
ttsynth, and I have yet to find a way to get speech-dispatcher 
running without the ttsynth module crashing frequently.  It's running 
perfectly under hardy and s-d 0.6.6.  Any suggestions?  If anyone has 
any ideas or suggestions, please let me know ASAP.

Thanks much,


Guy