[orca-list] Orca Hangups

[Dave Hunt <dave hunt2 verizon net>]

Hi List!

I've been running Ubuntu (intrepid) on this Dell laptop for some time 
and enjoying the experience, over all.  I've noticed, however, that Orca 
will just stop speaking at various times.  One such example is the "save 
as" dialogue in the text editor.  Whenever this dialogue is displayed, 
Orca will just stop speaking for several minutes.  Sometimes, playing 
with the mouse pad will restore speach, or is this just a coincidence?  
Also, especially when on battery, Orca will stop speaking when I 
interrupt the reading of a long passage on a web site.  That is, I hit 
'ctrl' to stop speech, and orca just sits there for over a minute, not 
talking.  Again, playing with the mouse pad can apparently restore 
speech.  I suggest trying to read any of the articles on 
http://www.boston.com/news.local/articles/, for instance.  Choose any 
item, go past the text sizing links manually, then do a "say all" from 
that point.  Maybe you'll reproduce this behavior?

Per suggestion by Willy Walker on this list, I include the results of 
"uname -a", "gnome-about --version", and "orca --version".


Thanks for any help,


Dave  Hunt

Twitter wx1gdave



Script started on Tue 10 Feb 2009 05:07:55 PM EST
]0;dave dave-laptop: ~dave dave-laptop:~$ date
Tue Feb 10 17:08:10 EST 2009
]0;dave dave-laptop: ~dave dave-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux dave-laptop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 
i686 GNU/Linux
]0;dave dave-laptop: ~dave dave-laptop:~$ gnome-about --version
GNOME gnome-about 2.24.1
]0;dave dave-laptop: ~dave dave-laptop:~$ orca --version
Orca 2.24.1
]0;dave dave-laptop: ~dave dave-laptop:~$ exit
exit

Script done on Tue 10 Feb 2009 05:09:21 PM EST