Re: [orca-list] Orca Hangups

[Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi, I use a dell latitude d630 and ubuntu 8.10 with no problems.
I had some dificulties to configure my wireless card but it was solved 
installing a package called b43-fwcutter.

On 11-02-2009 04:24, Helios wrote:
> Hi,
> I also have some negative experience with dell computers. Maybe this
> is because they use their own parts, which are sometime little bit
> "specific". I have Dell Optiplex 755 in office and I also tried some
> live-cds on it. It was the only computer where I was not able to use
> ethernet connection from live-cd (I tried remastered Pclinuxos 2007
> and Ubuntu 8.04). Both distributions were unable to find device for
> ethernet. My colleague told me, that on his Dell desktop computer, the
> only one distro which was able to boot correctly was the original
> Pclinuxos 2007 (he also tried Ubuntu and Debian). So according to this
> experiences I personally would obviate Dell computers.
>
> Helios
>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:25:24 -0500
> From: Storm Dragon<stormdragon2976 gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca Hangups
> To: Orca-list<orca-list gnome org>
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> It must be something special about Dell computers. I have had Orca stop
> speaking a lot on this computer, it's a Dell Studio 1536 running Ubuntu
> Intrepid 64 bit. It doesn't happen on the other 2 computers I use
> regularly, a Compaq C500 and an old Gateway laptop. Now that I have set
> up a key to launch Orca, it isn't quite as bad as before. I was hitting
> f2 slightly before alt or something, because I was accidently renaming
> things to orca. Now, with the key press, it's no longer a problem.
> Storm
> Check out the Storm Dragon blog:
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