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

[David Mehler]

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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