Re: [orca-list] Raspbian: Problem starting orca under ratpoison

[Lars Bjørndal <lars lamasti net>]

[Peter Vágner]

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> The intention was that producing sounds such as beeps to signal progressbar
> updates is optional feature and gstreamer is optional dependency of orca.
>
> Thus now when thinking more about your situation I would try the following
> if I were you.
>
> If you want to have speech and sound do something to make the sound working
> perhaps by tweaking boot params of your rpi or installing alsa or pulseaudio
> whatever might be missing and then make sure gstreamer is installed and can
> play sound.
>
> If you don't need speech output and sound, try to uninstall gstreamer and
> its related packages, it might be that there are some dev or python specific
> gstreamer packages packaged for debian.

Thank you. Uninstalling gstreamer did the trick.

Lars

> Dňa 2. 12. 2019 o 9:02 Lars Bjørndal via orca-list napísal(a):
> > Thank you. But why does Orca needs sound if speech is disabled?
> >
> > It may well be that sound isn't configured on my system. I'v only installed Raspbian minimal pluss Orca, 
> > xinit and ratpoison.
> >
> > Lars
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 05:57:06AM +0000, Peter Vágner wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Is sound working on your system?
> > > Have you got gstreamer installed?
> > > I can't give you a precise suggestions regarding debian however these
> > > are my guesses after I've seen your traceback.
> > > Greetings
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Dňa December 1, 2019 8:23:16 PM UTC používateľ "Lars Bjørndal via
> > > orca-list" <orca-list gnome org> napísal:
> > >
> > > Hi, list!
> > > To be able to use a GUI browser when needed, I'd like to get orca to run
> > > on my rpi 3 with Raspbian.
> > > In the .ratpoisonrc file, I have
> > > exec /usr/bin/orca -d speech -e braille
> > > I start ratpoison from xinitrc, and I use startx >logfile.log 2>&1
> > > I the log, I get
> > > X.Org X Server 1.20.4
> > > [...]
> > > ratpoison:actions.c:4802: warning: command "startup_message" is deprecated, use
> > > "set startupmessage" instead
> > > GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> > > ** Message: 20:15:37.238: x-terminal-emulator has very limited support, consider
> > >   choose another terminal
> > > ** (pcmanfm:1646): WARNING **: 20:15:37.421: The directory '/home/lrs/Templates'
> > >   doesn't exist, ignoring it
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >    File "/usr/bin/orca", line 44, in <module>
> > >   from orca import orca
> > >    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/orca.py", line 81, in <module>
> > >   from . import sound
> > >    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 163, in <module>
> > >   _player = Player()
> > >    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 55, in __init__
> > >   self.init()
> > >    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 123, in init
> > >   self._pipeline.add(self._sink)
> > >    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gst.py", line 64, in add
> > >   if not Gst.Bin.add(self, arg):
> > > TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value
> > > Any idea on what's going on? As speech is disabled, I'd suppose no sound either.
> > > Thanks
> > > Lars
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