Hello,
I received two reports that puzzle me of testers of Slint64-14.2.1RC2:
http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/
One is in this post:
https://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7462# p43392
cut here
Further, there was no /dev/audio during past boots.
So my program "saytime" would not work.
I copied /dev/audio over from Slint-32 and saytime is working and
/dev/audio survives a reboot sofar.
This user actually installed RC then upgraded using these instructions:
http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/upgrade/ README-UPGRADE
and maybe alos those:
http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/upgrade/from- rc-to-rc2
This is a sighted user so I am just puzzled how that could happen.
The second report worries me more, as the tester, Aiyumi in CC, is blind
and skilled: she actually got me started making Slint accessible with
this blog post:
http://aiyumi.warpstar.net/en/blog/installing-orca-on- slackware-14.2/
She installed anew from this ISO:
http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/slint64- 14.2.1RC2.iso
Starting the system after installation in text mode she got sound from
speakup, but no sound in graphical environment after having typed
startx.
I tried the same thing an got sound from orca.
I am now thinking that the issue could be related to pulseaudio and or
alsa rather than to the a11y stack itself, as we start pulseaudio system
wide but without any specific setting that maybe we miss. The daemon is
started like this as shown in /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio:
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --disallow-module-loading 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null &
Any hint or clue to investigate this issue is appreciated. I am
forwarding Aiyumi's last post below.
Greetings,
Didier
Forwarded message begins here
Sujet : Re: Slint 14.2.1rc2, last call for testing.
Date : Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:27:58 -0200
De : Aiyumi Moriya
Pour : Didier Spaier
2017-11-19 19:34 GMT-02:00, Didier Spaier
> I just installed anew RC2 from this file:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/slint64- 14.2.1RC2.iso
Yes, that's the one I installed.
> When asked I pressed S to have speech during installation, that I did in
> French. When asked I chose to start in Console mode.
>
> At first reboot I had speech on the console, and after startx I had
> speech on the desktop.
After reboot I had speech on the console, but after "startx" I had no
speech on the desktop. I created a new user, then did "orca-on" then
"startx," but nothing. I didn't try runlevelconfig or anything else.
> So, I really don't know from where come your issue. Did you reformat the
> root partition when installing, setting up a new filesystem in it?
Yes, I reformated the root partition. The home partition is shared
with another Slackware install, but that's why I created a new user
(to start with a fresh user with no interference from the files from
the other system's user). But it didn't work. I also tried unmounting
the home partition and creating a new user in the root partition, but
it didn't work, either.
Here are the checks from the previous message:
2017-11-19 12:18 GMT-02:00, Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>:
> A few things to check, even though you probably already did:
> - is the user member of the audio group?
Yes. And pulse group too.
> - are the Atspi, and Orca owned by the user?
Yes.
> - is /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio executable?
Yes.
> - aren't there stale file lying around, that should have been
> removed? For instance:
> /etc/xdg/autostart.desktop
> /usr/share/autostart/startorca.desktop
> /usr/share/autostart/orca.snip?
No. It's a clean install. I formated the root partition before installing.
> - does ~/.profile only contains
> cut here
> export PAGER=/usr/bin/most
> export GROFF_ENCODING=UTF-8
> export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/dev/shm/$(whoami)
> mkdir -p /dev/shm/$(whoami)
> chmod 700 /dev/shm/$(whoami)
> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$XDG_CACHE_HOME
> cut here
Yes.
> - do you have a file ~/auto/startorca.desktop with this content:
> cut here
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Version=1.0
> Name=orca
> Exec=/usr/bin/orca
> Hidden=false
> cut here
Yes.
> - if you made any upgrade using slapt-get --upgrade, did you
> run "dotnew" as root after that?
I only installed Slint and didn't upgrade anything.