Re: [orca-list] Updating orca?

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Hi Jennifer,

Sorry to hear about the problems, although I know what you mean.
The speech problems are not due to orca, but to underlying sound output 
drivers, which may crash. Of course we dont hear anything, and therefore think 
it is orca.

as for updating orca:

In a gnome terminal, type:
gnome-about --version
and
orca --version

and provide us with the info, and we can take it from there.

Also it might be worth checking out if open solaris works on your hardware, 
since it is not having the sound problems currently experienced in ubuntu.

The latest is open solaris 2009.06

a google search should provide a link for download.

It can run as a live cd, so you dont have to install it straight away.

-Jon
On Mon 03/08/2009 at 23:32:56, Jennifer wrote:
> Hi. I have had many problems trying to get orca to work properly with various distros of Ubuntu on my net 
> book (Acer aspire 1). I am currently using EasyPeasy linux and though orca still crashes quite a bit at 
> least wireless works out of the box.
> I just want to update orca to the latest version so I can check whether this makes things any better for me 
> but I believe it is integrated in to the gnome desk top so I need to update the entire thing?
> This may not be a bad idea any way but I can not see an option to update the gnome desk top when I use the 
> "update manager" or the "cynaptic package manager"
> I am assuming I can type something in the terminal like "sudo apt -get apt -update orca" but I am very new 
> to this so could someone possibly correct me regarding the syntax to use?
> I also want to practice more and use the terminal but as orca seems to be quite unstable I usually don't 
> get very far so if any-one can recommend a good distro that I can boot from a USB stick with instructions 
> of how to launch orca that would be great (preferably something that has been tested on similar net book).
>
> Thanks
> Jen!
>
>
>
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