Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo

[David Mehler]

Hello,
I am also using vmware for my installs. I only have one physical
machine at the moment.
What i did was downloaded the latest gentoo mini iso, then remastered
it to start sshd and activate a serial console on boot. I then
connected to that via pipe, and started the install to vm image. After
bringing up virtual networking i was then able to complete the install
via ssh connection. As for the install itself i followed the gentoo
handbook i read the beginner one for the overview and the software
raid one for the actual install, and followed them. After the install
i read and followed the gnome book and that's where i'm at now. I get
no keyboard at the gnome login screen, although text console access
works fine. I've got speakup going with software speech and have also
tried yasr with espeakup and festival, all of that is working.
Hth
Dave.


On 4/13/10, Derek Roberts <bigd.vi.guy@×××××.com> wrote:
> Ah, no idea what's going on there. I don't really have a system, the
> one I use is a vmware image. I would install gentoo on my actual box
> if I could get speakup working, but every iso I've tried either hasn't
> had it or it's broken. How did you install Gentoo on your pc? Have the
> images been fixed recently?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 4/13/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Thanks. On my system i do have Espeak installed. What profile and USE
>> flags do you have set?
>> Right now my problem is when gnome starts i don't have any keyboard
>> control, the keyboard works at a text console, but at the gnome login
>> screen I type and get no output.
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>> On 4/12/10, Derek Roberts <bigd.vi.guy@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> You would've caught this one if you had just emerged espeak. The
>>> problem is, the use flags do not include portaudio. Espeak uses
>>> portaudio to play the generated speech. Also, I think speech
>>> dispatcher works around this somehow, on debian I was able to use
>>> spd-say to make espeak talk, even though the version of portaudio I
>>> had tried to use at the time was bad.
>>>
>>> HTH!
>>>
>>> On 3/30/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> If anyone has this working please let me know your orca version, gnome
>>>> version how you got it i'm fighting with 2.26.3, and gentoo version?
>>>> My gnome version keeps failing with compiling the user docs i'm
>>>> uncertain if that's the base of my problem since a google showed if i
>>>> installed libxml2 that should fix it. On one test box it's working, on
>>>> the other not. In neither case is gnome speech talking even though i
>>>> can play console audio such as mp3's.
>>>> For the user docs issue should i file a bug report on this?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Dave.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I'm getting an error in /var/log/Xorg.log not sure if it's related.
>>>>> The module fbdev is not found.
>>>>> If i run gnome speech's test i get no output. Running espeak with the
>>>>> -f and a file also yields no output, no errors just no output.
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> Dave.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Thanks. I was able to restart world and it completed. When i logged in
>>>>>> to gnome and atempted to run orca no speech output. I thought it was a
>>>>>> volume issue with alsa, but using mpg123 from the console i was able
>>>>>> to play an mp3. The orca window appears to come up but no speech
>>>>>> feedback.
>>>>>> Suggestions welcome.
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> Dave.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Your system's still good to go. Portage handles most if not all its
>>>>>>> compilation operations in an isolated environment, only moving things
>>>>>>> over
>>>>>>> into the main system when it's compiled successfully. You should
>>>>>>> therefore
>>>>>>> just be able to redo the emerge.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
>>>>>>> Sent: March 29, 2010 4:59 PM
>>>>>>> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on
>>>>>>> gentoo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> I was doing an emerge --update --deep --newuse world about four hours
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>> in to it the machine shut down. Has this corrupted my system?
>>>>>>> The log information is going to the summary.log file but more than
>>>>>>> post
>>>>>>> messages are being shown. Is there a way i can get just he summary
>>>>>>> messages
>>>>>>> with routine info.
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>> Dave.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your reply. Googling the gentoo docs and looking in
>>>>>>>> /etc/make.conf and /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf-example i've
>>>>>>>> come up with the following variables. Will this get me the
>>>>>>>> post-installation messages?
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>> Dave.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /etc/make.conf:
>>>>>>>> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info log warn error"
>>>>>>>> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/29/10, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> there is a much better way to capture messages from packages.  Take
>>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>> look at the PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM and PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI settings
>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>> make.conf.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It is possible to have this information saved to a file or emailed
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> you.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> William
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:34AM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks. I'll do that and report back, I don't expect it'll be a
>>>>>>>>>> quick process.
>>>>>>>>>> One thing how do i determine results of these updates? I know the
>>>>>>>>>> packages sometimes put messages to the screen, only the last of
>>>>>>>>>> which i can get at, if a package way up puts one onscreen i miss
>>>>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>>>> I've tried a script command to try to capture but the output is
>>>>>>>>>> compilations.
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>> Dave.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> > Try adding the accessibility use flag, then emerge --update
>>>>>>>>>> > --deep
>>>>>>>>>> > --newuse world.
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>>> > From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
>>>>>>>>>> > Sent: March 29, 2010 10:25 AM
>>>>>>>>>> > To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
>>>>>>>>>> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on
>>>>>>>>>> > gentoo
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > Hello,
>>>>>>>>>> > Thanks for your reply. Here are my USE flags.
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4
>>>>>>>>>> > -arts
>>>>>>>>>> > sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> >  My complete /etc/make.conf file is below.
>>>>>>>>>> > Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>> > Dave.
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > /etc/make.conf:
>>>>>>>>>> > # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
>>>>>>>>>> > automatically # built this stage.
>>>>>>>>>> > # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for
>>>>>>>>>> > a
>>>>>>>>>> > more # detailed example.
>>>>>>>>>> > # VMware emulates an Intel Core 2 Duo
>>>>>>>>>> > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
>>>>>>>>>> > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
>>>>>>>>>> > # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be
>>>>>>>>>> > done lightly.
>>>>>>>>>> > # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml
>>>>>>>>>> > before changing.
>>>>>>>>>> > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > MAKEOPTS="-j2"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > ALSA_CARDS="ens1371"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vesa vga"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > LINGUAS="en en_US"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4
>>>>>>>>>> > -arts
>>>>>>>>>> > sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> >> What are your use flags? You're probably missing someething.
>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>>> >> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
>>>>>>>>>> >> Sent: March 28, 2010 10:52 AM
>>>>>>>>>> >> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
>>>>>>>>>> >> Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on
>>>>>>>>>> >> gentoo
>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>> >> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>> >> I'm trying to get orca going on gentoo. The gnome version used
>>>>>>>>>> >> is
>>>>>>>>>> >> 2.26. I've tried googling and asking on the orca mailing list,
>>>>>>>>>> >> without
>>>>>>>>>> > success.
>>>>>>>>>> >> I installed gentoo following the handbook except used a serial
>>>>>>>>>> >> terminal, this is in a virtual machine as i unfortunately only
>>>>>>>>>> >> have one machine. Later i proceeded to install gnome, which
>>>>>>>>>> >> failed. Before the install would complete successfully libxml2
>>>>>>>>>> >> needed to be installed. I next installed orca and started up
>>>>>>>>>> >> gnome. I had to make some changes to custom.conf so i could log
>>>>>>>>>> >> in and loaded the accessibility modules per instructions on the
>>>>>>>>>> >> orca site. When i tried to start orca via either the alt+f2,
>>>>>>>>>> >> orca
>>>>>>>>>> >> or in a terminal with orca --text-setup i get to the second
>>>>>>>>>> >> screen where i'm prompted for the speech server always i choose
>>>>>>>>>> >> gnome speech and then i hear no more speech. I've also
>>>>>>>>>> >> installed
>>>>>>>>>> >> the java-access-bridge, but am assuming
>>>>>>>>>> > there's a configuration step i'm missing.
>>>>>>>>>> >> Any suggestions appreciated.
>>>>>>>>>> >> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>> >> Dave.
>>>>>>>>>> >>
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