Re: [orca-list] Testers of Slint64-14.2RC2 reporting no sound in graphical environment

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

I got espeak working and once graphical mode was started using startx I 
needed to turn the screen reader on and the speech only gave me the 
start up message then no more.  I have more testing to try in that 
environment later probably once the screen reader is running try to get 
into its preferences.
Another problem, I only have a wifi connection here for computers and 
this time nmtui failed to work for me.  Two problems first after 
deleting the ethernet connection I had to do that earlier to get my 
network name to come up this time my network name did not come up and 
I'm using the same adapter to write this message on panix1.panix.com on 
a different computer.  The main computer is far older than what I tested 
slint on this time too.  I think I'll do a reinstall and not install kde 
and see what other options are available to configure networks other 
than networkmanager on this system.  Maybe if another exists it might 
work bettter this time.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Didier Spaier wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:13:49
> From: Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>
> To: orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Cc: Aiyumi <aiyumi br gmail com>, Peter V?gner <pvdeejay gmail com>,
>     Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>
> Subject: Testers of Slint64-14.2RC2 reporting no sound in graphical
>     environment
>
> 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.

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