Re: [orca-list] Orca and Fedora 11

[lars bjorndal broadpark no (Lars Bjørndal)]

Cearbhall O'Meadhra <omeadhrac ncad ie> writes:

> Hello Orca users,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me with this problem?
>
> I got a shock today when I loaded fedora 11 and found that the PC responds
> very sluggishly when Orca is loaded. To check this, I unloaded Orca and my
> sighted colleague noted that the response was much livelier. How much, I
> cannot say as we did not measure it in any precise way. When I reloaded Orca
> the response went back to very sluggish. By this, I mean taking about full
> seconds to move the cursor between buttons on the Orca Preference General
> page. Likewise, on the Main menu.
>
> I thought it might have to do with Pulse Audio. This may be so, but we found
> that Fedora 11 is so engaged with Pulse Audio that the system warned that
> about fifteen major systems would be impaired by this action, including the
> main menu, the configuration tool and so on. 
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I am running on a brand new PC with no other operating system running on it.

I have the same problem. Switching from espeak to festival seems to
get better responsiveness.

Lars