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A very good way to test if sound itself
is the problem on your system is by seeing if you can get espeak
to talk by having it echo a string. Here is what you do:
Once you are sure you have gnome up, type alt+f2 and type gnome-terminal in that field. From the command prompt which, I'm assuming is going to be there, type this: espeak 'hello' If you hear espeak say hello, you have sound and even speech. Next, test speech dispatcher. Type this: spd-say 'hello' If speech dispatcher is working and espeak itself is working, then, it is indeed orca that is the culprit. The fact that you have your same home folder form before your system re-install means you probably have some setting or other that is messing things up. Try this: apt-get purge gnome-orca Then, try: apt-get install gnome-orca The first will completely remove Orca with configuration files. The second will, of course, reinstall it. You wil want sighted assistance for all of this if you do not have console speech. If you have Ubuntu that is not a Vinux 10.04 modification, you do not have speech in the console. Actually, Vinux 3.2 based on 11.04 was the last to have this working well. I'd hesitate to go through with an upgrade to 12.04 or 12.10 until you have your current box speaking. Those are long, drawn-out affairs and you probably won't have a sighted person willing to hang around for the duration. Once you get this working, however you do this, I would strongly recommend having a solution to get speech in the console and maybe even Emacspeak. I use Espeakup, myself. I don't like too much depending on speech dispatcher. I also have Emacspeak. So, no matter what, I can always get to a talking terminal and, I can always do some work. If Orca goes on the blink, I use cli apps in console while I troubleshoot and so forth. HTH, Alex M On 2/4/2013 11:32 AM, luciano de souza wrote: Hello listers, Suddenly, the sound disappered. Having restarted my Ubuntu 10.10, the sound keeped off. Without a help of a sighted-people, I could not enable the sound. For this reason, I decided to reinstall the system. The process was done successfully, but after it, I have a bad news: the sound was still off. As I am using a customized iso and I have used it before, I am sure orca is active. In spite of that, it doesn't speak. I have a partition for system files and another to the Home. When the reinstalation was performed, the Home is entirely preserved. The conclusion is that Orca does not speak by virtue of settings placed in Home folders. Becose I won't have external helps, I would like to retify this problem by means of commandlines. It's eazy to type without see. I suppose that, deleting Orca preferences or sound preferences at Home folders, the sound will be enabled. Another solutions could be: "To create another profile by terminal commands". A blank profile won't have previous stored settings. I can also copy the content of my Home and format this partition. Howerver, if I do it, all the advantage of a separated partition will be lost. In short, what could I do to solve this problem? Any help is appreciated. Regards, Luciano _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp --
Alex Midence
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