Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:57:01
Message-Id: 78e0dabc1003290956y909f504u35a5a8f55b2f6aa7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo by William Hubbs
1 Hello,
2 Thanks for your reply. Googling the gentoo docs and looking in
3 /etc/make.conf and /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf-example i've
4 come up with the following variables. Will this get me the
5 post-installation messages?
6 Thanks.
7 Dave.
8
9 /etc/make.conf:
10 PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info log warn error"
11 PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary"
12
13
14 On 3/29/10, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
15 > Hi Dave,
16 >
17 > there is a much better way to capture messages from packages. Take a
18 > look at the PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM and PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI settings in
19 > make.conf.
20 >
21 > It is possible to have this information saved to a file or emailed to
22 > you.
23 >
24 > Thanks,
25 >
26 > William
27 >
28 > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:34AM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
29 >> Hi,
30 >> Thanks. I'll do that and report back, I don't expect it'll be a quick
31 >> process.
32 >> One thing how do i determine results of these updates? I know the
33 >> packages sometimes put messages to the screen, only the last of which
34 >> i can get at, if a package way up puts one onscreen i miss it. I've
35 >> tried a script command to try to capture but the output is
36 >> compilations.
37 >> Thanks.
38 >> Dave.
39 >>
40 >>
41 >> On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
42 >> > Try adding the accessibility use flag, then emerge --update --deep
43 >> > --newuse
44 >> > world.
45 >> >
46 >> > -----Original Message-----
47 >> > From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
48 >> > Sent: March 29, 2010 10:25 AM
49 >> > To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
50 >> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo
51 >> >
52 >> > Hello,
53 >> > Thanks for your reply. Here are my USE flags.
54 >> >
55 >> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts
56 >> > sockets
57 >> > threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
58 >> >
59 >> > My complete /etc/make.conf file is below.
60 >> > Thanks.
61 >> > Dave.
62 >> >
63 >> > /etc/make.conf:
64 >> > # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
65 >> > automatically #
66 >> > built this stage.
67 >> > # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
68 >> > #
69 >> > detailed example.
70 >> > # VMware emulates an Intel Core 2 Duo
71 >> > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
72 >> > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
73 >> > # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done
74 >> > lightly.
75 >> > # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before
76 >> > changing.
77 >> > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
78 >> >
79 >> > MAKEOPTS="-j2"
80 >> >
81 >> > ALSA_CARDS="ens1371"
82 >> >
83 >> > VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vesa vga"
84 >> >
85 >> > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse"
86 >> >
87 >> > LINGUAS="en en_US"
88 >> >
89 >> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts
90 >> > sockets
91 >> > threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
92 >> >
93 >> >
94 >> > On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
95 >> >> What are your use flags? You're probably missing someething.
96 >> >>
97 >> >> -----Original Message-----
98 >> >> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
99 >> >> Sent: March 28, 2010 10:52 AM
100 >> >> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
101 >> >> Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo
102 >> >>
103 >> >> Hello,
104 >> >> I'm trying to get orca going on gentoo. The gnome version used is
105 >> >> 2.26. I've tried googling and asking on the orca mailing list, without
106 >> > success.
107 >> >> I installed gentoo following the handbook except used a serial
108 >> >> terminal, this is in a virtual machine as i unfortunately only have
109 >> >> one machine. Later i proceeded to install gnome, which failed. Before
110 >> >> the install would complete successfully libxml2 needed to be
111 >> >> installed. I next installed orca and started up gnome. I had to make
112 >> >> some changes to custom.conf so i could log in and loaded the
113 >> >> accessibility modules per instructions on the orca site. When i tried
114 >> >> to start orca via either the alt+f2, orca or in a terminal with orca
115 >> >> --text-setup i get to the second screen where i'm prompted for the
116 >> >> speech server always i choose gnome speech and then i hear no more
117 >> >> speech. I've also installed the java-access-bridge, but am assuming
118 >> > there's a configuration step i'm missing.
119 >> >> Any suggestions appreciated.
120 >> >> Thanks.
121 >> >> Dave.
122 >> >>
123 >> >>
124 >> >>
125 >> >>
126 >> >
127 >> >
128 >> >
129 >> >
130 >>
131 >

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