[orca-list] gnome3, Orca, and Arch

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Greetings!

I think I followeed Halim's instructions correctly in creating a 
default.pa file in the .pulse directory within my user directory.  I 
also commented out the lines in /etc/asound.conf, as Michael suggested. 
 Now, when I use the startx command, Orca still doesn't talk.  If I do 
alt-f2 and type "orca" (without the quotes, of course), I hear "welcome 
to orca" and nothing else.  Once and only once, when I used 
alt-ctrl-backspace to get back to the text console, orca said "goodbye."

I believe the experience with orca is similar to that described in an 
earlier message.  In my case, however, I did not lose sound.  While in 
the gui, I was able to listen to an old-time radio show.  Also, after 
returning to the text console a few minutes ago, I found I could still 
get software speech by way of "espeak hello".  At this point, therefore, 
it seems that orca's the only thing I can't use.

In case clarifying is needed, I use speakup via the TripleTalk LT.

I didn't see quite this problem in reviewing earlier messages on this 
topic, but is there a fix or part of a fix I've missed?

Thanks!

Al