Re: [orca-list] Orca Hangups

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

Hi David,
As a suggestion, try to update to orca's last version from svn.
Many problems regarding stops in orca were solved.

I can tell the steps that I took to upgrade, if you need some help.

On 11-02-2009 00:05, Dave Hunt wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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