Re: [orca-list] Orca crashes and fails to start (Arch/Gnome 3.8)

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I haven't closelly followed your discussion however what might be also 
important that you need to copy /etc/pulse/client.conf into 
/var/lib/gdm/.config/pulse and then edit the copyat 
/var/lib/gdm/.config/pulse/client.conf making sure autospawn is enabled.
Kyle just posted how to enable orca speaking on login screen, which also 
starts up speech-dispatcher as gdm user however pulseaudio is no longer 
started automatically and this is why you might have issues getting 
speech output on a login screen.

Greetings

Peter



On 19.06.2013 14:38, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I have a similar problem where gdm won't do anything for me. I
> followed your steps exactly as you stated below but my gdm session is
> still silent. Can you tell me how I can completely strip out X and
> gnome entirely and just reinstall the bloddy thing? I can't get gnome
> to start at all with startx now and this mess with gdm as a possible
> alternatively is broken for me.
>
> So at this moment, I cannot use gnome at all on my system. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated. I should also say that I am using Arch
> Linux with testing repositories enabled. I generally like Arch
> intently but I can't seem to figure out what is wrong with gnome here.
>
> I did post a recent message about module modesetting not found when I
> do startx and X quits immediately.
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:00:14PM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> > Since the accessibility stack is now enabled by default in GNOME, it's
> > probably not necessary to use orca -t now. Instead of running it in a
> > text console, try the following steps.
> >
> > If gdm is not already running, run
> >
> > systemctl start gdm
> >
> > as root. If you don't hear a prompt, you have been placed on the login
> > screen, so you can skip to the keystrokes to enable the talking login.
> > If you do hear the command prompt, but you didn't hear an error message,
> > you will most likely be switched to the gdm login screen in a second or
> > two. If you get an error, as root again, run
> >
> > systemctl restart gdm
> >
> > You should automatically be placed at the login screen at this point.
> > Now press alt-control-tab, the right arrow once, the down arrow 4 times
> > and then the enter key. If you still don't hear "Welcome to Orca" within
> > a couple of seconds, go back to your root shell and run
> >
> > systemctl restart gdm
> >
> > The login screen should now be speaking. Login to GNOME and wait between
> > 10 seconds and about a minute, depending on the speed of your computer.
> > Then press alt-control-tab, the right arrow twice, the down arrow 4
> > times and the enter key. Restart gdm from your root shell again if you
> > don't hear the welcome message. At this point, your GNOME 3.8 system
> > should be up and talking. Hope this helps.
> > ~Kyle
> > http://kyle.tk/
> > --
> > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
> > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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> > 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
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