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: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:36:16
Message-Id: 78e0dabc1003291936q598c1359m2865f4ff0a308c14@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo by David Mehler
1 Hi,
2 I'm getting an error in /var/log/Xorg.log not sure if it's related.
3 The module fbdev is not found.
4 If i run gnome speech's test i get no output. Running espeak with the
5 -f and a file also yields no output, no errors just no output.
6 Thanks.
7 Dave.
8
9
10 On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
11 > Hi,
12 > Thanks. I was able to restart world and it completed. When i logged in
13 > to gnome and atempted to run orca no speech output. I thought it was a
14 > volume issue with alsa, but using mpg123 from the console i was able
15 > to play an mp3. The orca window appears to come up but no speech
16 > feedback.
17 > Suggestions welcome.
18 > Thanks.
19 > Dave.
20 >
21 >
22 > On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
23 >> Your system's still good to go. Portage handles most if not all its
24 >> compilation operations in an isolated environment, only moving things
25 >> over
26 >> into the main system when it's compiled successfully. You should
27 >> therefore
28 >> just be able to redo the emerge.
29 >>
30 >> -----Original Message-----
31 >> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
32 >> Sent: March 29, 2010 4:59 PM
33 >> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
34 >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo
35 >>
36 >> Hi,
37 >> I was doing an emerge --update --deep --newuse world about four hours or
38 >> so
39 >> in to it the machine shut down. Has this corrupted my system?
40 >> The log information is going to the summary.log file but more than post
41 >> messages are being shown. Is there a way i can get just he summary
42 >> messages
43 >> with routine info.
44 >> Thanks.
45 >> Dave.
46 >>
47 >>
48 >> On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
49 >>> Hello,
50 >>> Thanks for your reply. Googling the gentoo docs and looking in
51 >>> /etc/make.conf and /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf-example i've
52 >>> come up with the following variables. Will this get me the
53 >>> post-installation messages?
54 >>> Thanks.
55 >>> Dave.
56 >>>
57 >>> /etc/make.conf:
58 >>> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info log warn error"
59 >>> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary"
60 >>>
61 >>>
62 >>> On 3/29/10, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
63 >>>> Hi Dave,
64 >>>>
65 >>>> there is a much better way to capture messages from packages. Take a
66 >>>> look at the PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM and PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI settings in
67 >>>> make.conf.
68 >>>>
69 >>>> It is possible to have this information saved to a file or emailed to
70 >>>> you.
71 >>>>
72 >>>> Thanks,
73 >>>>
74 >>>> William
75 >>>>
76 >>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:34AM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
77 >>>>> Hi,
78 >>>>> Thanks. I'll do that and report back, I don't expect it'll be a
79 >>>>> quick process.
80 >>>>> One thing how do i determine results of these updates? I know the
81 >>>>> packages sometimes put messages to the screen, only the last of
82 >>>>> which i can get at, if a package way up puts one onscreen i miss it.
83 >>>>> I've tried a script command to try to capture but the output is
84 >>>>> compilations.
85 >>>>> Thanks.
86 >>>>> Dave.
87 >>>>>
88 >>>>>
89 >>>>> On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
90 >>>>> > Try adding the accessibility use flag, then emerge --update --deep
91 >>>>> > --newuse world.
92 >>>>> >
93 >>>>> > -----Original Message-----
94 >>>>> > From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
95 >>>>> > Sent: March 29, 2010 10:25 AM
96 >>>>> > To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
97 >>>>> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on
98 >>>>> > gentoo
99 >>>>> >
100 >>>>> > Hello,
101 >>>>> > Thanks for your reply. Here are my USE flags.
102 >>>>> >
103 >>>>> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts
104 >>>>> > sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
105 >>>>> >
106 >>>>> > My complete /etc/make.conf file is below.
107 >>>>> > Thanks.
108 >>>>> > Dave.
109 >>>>> >
110 >>>>> > /etc/make.conf:
111 >>>>> > # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
112 >>>>> > automatically # built this stage.
113 >>>>> > # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a
114 >>>>> > more # detailed example.
115 >>>>> > # VMware emulates an Intel Core 2 Duo
116 >>>>> > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
117 >>>>> > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
118 >>>>> > # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be
119 >>>>> > done lightly.
120 >>>>> > # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml
121 >>>>> > before changing.
122 >>>>> > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
123 >>>>> >
124 >>>>> > MAKEOPTS="-j2"
125 >>>>> >
126 >>>>> > ALSA_CARDS="ens1371"
127 >>>>> >
128 >>>>> > VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vesa vga"
129 >>>>> >
130 >>>>> > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse"
131 >>>>> >
132 >>>>> > LINGUAS="en en_US"
133 >>>>> >
134 >>>>> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts
135 >>>>> > sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
136 >>>>> >
137 >>>>> >
138 >>>>> > On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
139 >>>>> >> What are your use flags? You're probably missing someething.
140 >>>>> >>
141 >>>>> >> -----Original Message-----
142 >>>>> >> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
143 >>>>> >> Sent: March 28, 2010 10:52 AM
144 >>>>> >> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
145 >>>>> >> Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on
146 >>>>> >> gentoo
147 >>>>> >>
148 >>>>> >> Hello,
149 >>>>> >> I'm trying to get orca going on gentoo. The gnome version used is
150 >>>>> >> 2.26. I've tried googling and asking on the orca mailing list,
151 >>>>> >> without
152 >>>>> > success.
153 >>>>> >> I installed gentoo following the handbook except used a serial
154 >>>>> >> terminal, this is in a virtual machine as i unfortunately only
155 >>>>> >> have one machine. Later i proceeded to install gnome, which
156 >>>>> >> failed. Before the install would complete successfully libxml2
157 >>>>> >> needed to be installed. I next installed orca and started up
158 >>>>> >> gnome. I had to make some changes to custom.conf so i could log
159 >>>>> >> in and loaded the accessibility modules per instructions on the
160 >>>>> >> orca site. When i tried to start orca via either the alt+f2, orca
161 >>>>> >> or in a terminal with orca --text-setup i get to the second
162 >>>>> >> screen where i'm prompted for the speech server always i choose
163 >>>>> >> gnome speech and then i hear no more speech. I've also installed
164 >>>>> >> the java-access-bridge, but am assuming
165 >>>>> > there's a configuration step i'm missing.
166 >>>>> >> Any suggestions appreciated.
167 >>>>> >> Thanks.
168 >>>>> >> Dave.
169 >>>>> >>
170 >>>>> >>
171 >>>>> >>
172 >>>>> >>
173 >>>>> >
174 >>>>> >
175 >>>>> >
176 >>>>> >
177 >>>>>
178 >>>>
179 >>>
180 >>
181 >>
182 >>
183 >>
184 >

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