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From: James Homuth <james@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:46:54
Message-Id: 00af01cadb74$50441990$6400a8c0@quan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo by David Mehler
1 Give input settings similar to this a try. This works in my /etc/make.conf.
2
3 INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev"
4
5 If you're not on a laptop, you may not need synaptics, but I'd throw the
6 others in there.
7
8 -----Original Message-----
9 From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
10 Sent: April 13, 2010 1:58 AM
11 To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
12 Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo
13
14 Hi,
15 Thanks. On my system i do have Espeak installed. What profile and USE flags
16 do you have set?
17 Right now my problem is when gnome starts i don't have any keyboard control,
18 the keyboard works at a text console, but at the gnome login screen I type
19 and get no output.
20 Thanks.
21 Dave.
22
23
24 On 4/12/10, Derek Roberts <bigd.vi.guy@×××××.com> wrote:
25 > Hey,
26 >
27 > You would've caught this one if you had just emerged espeak. The
28 > problem is, the use flags do not include portaudio. Espeak uses
29 > portaudio to play the generated speech. Also, I think speech
30 > dispatcher works around this somehow, on debian I was able to use
31 > spd-say to make espeak talk, even though the version of portaudio I
32 > had tried to use at the time was bad.
33 >
34 > HTH!
35 >
36 > On 3/30/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
37 >> Hello,
38 >> If anyone has this working please let me know your orca version,
39 >> gnome version how you got it i'm fighting with 2.26.3, and gentoo
40 version?
41 >> My gnome version keeps failing with compiling the user docs i'm
42 >> uncertain if that's the base of my problem since a google showed if i
43 >> installed libxml2 that should fix it. On one test box it's working,
44 >> on the other not. In neither case is gnome speech talking even though
45 >> i can play console audio such as mp3's.
46 >> For the user docs issue should i file a bug report on this?
47 >> Thanks.
48 >> Dave.
49 >>
50 >>
51 >> On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
52 >>> Hi,
53 >>> I'm getting an error in /var/log/Xorg.log not sure if it's related.
54 >>> The module fbdev is not found.
55 >>> If i run gnome speech's test i get no output. Running espeak with
56 >>> the -f and a file also yields no output, no errors just no output.
57 >>> Thanks.
58 >>> Dave.
59 >>>
60 >>>
61 >>> On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
62 >>>> Hi,
63 >>>> Thanks. I was able to restart world and it completed. When i logged
64 >>>> in to gnome and atempted to run orca no speech output. I thought it
65 >>>> was a volume issue with alsa, but using mpg123 from the console i
66 >>>> was able to play an mp3. The orca window appears to come up but no
67 >>>> speech feedback.
68 >>>> Suggestions welcome.
69 >>>> Thanks.
70 >>>> Dave.
71 >>>>
72 >>>>
73 >>>> On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
74 >>>>> Your system's still good to go. Portage handles most if not all
75 >>>>> its compilation operations in an isolated environment, only moving
76 >>>>> things over into the main system when it's compiled successfully.
77 >>>>> You should therefore just be able to redo the emerge.
78 >>>>>
79 >>>>> -----Original Message-----
80 >>>>> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
81 >>>>> Sent: March 29, 2010 4:59 PM
82 >>>>> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
83 >>>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on
84 >>>>> gentoo
85 >>>>>
86 >>>>> Hi,
87 >>>>> I was doing an emerge --update --deep --newuse world about four
88 >>>>> hours or so in to it the machine shut down. Has this corrupted my
89 >>>>> system?
90 >>>>> The log information is going to the summary.log file but more than
91 >>>>> post messages are being shown. Is there a way i can get just he
92 >>>>> summary messages with routine info.
93 >>>>> Thanks.
94 >>>>> Dave.
95 >>>>>
96 >>>>>
97 >>>>> On 3/29/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
98 >>>>>> Hello,
99 >>>>>> Thanks for your reply. Googling the gentoo docs and looking in
100 >>>>>> /etc/make.conf and /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf-example
101 >>>>>> i've come up with the following variables. Will this get me the
102 >>>>>> post-installation messages?
103 >>>>>> Thanks.
104 >>>>>> Dave.
105 >>>>>>
106 >>>>>> /etc/make.conf:
107 >>>>>> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info log warn error"
108 >>>>>> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary"
109 >>>>>>
110 >>>>>>
111 >>>>>> On 3/29/10, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
112 >>>>>>> Hi Dave,
113 >>>>>>>
114 >>>>>>> there is a much better way to capture messages from packages.
115 >>>>>>> Take a look at the PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM and PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI
116 >>>>>>> settings in make.conf.
117 >>>>>>>
118 >>>>>>> It is possible to have this information saved to a file or
119 >>>>>>> emailed to you.
120 >>>>>>>
121 >>>>>>> Thanks,
122 >>>>>>>
123 >>>>>>> William
124 >>>>>>>
125 >>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:34AM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
126 >>>>>>>> Hi,
127 >>>>>>>> Thanks. I'll do that and report back, I don't expect it'll be a
128 >>>>>>>> quick process.
129 >>>>>>>> One thing how do i determine results of these updates? I know
130 >>>>>>>> the packages sometimes put messages to the screen, only the
131 >>>>>>>> last of which i can get at, if a package way up puts one onscreen i
132 miss it.
133 >>>>>>>> I've tried a script command to try to capture but the output is
134 >>>>>>>> compilations.
135 >>>>>>>> Thanks.
136 >>>>>>>> Dave.
137 >>>>>>>>
138 >>>>>>>>
139 >>>>>>>> On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
140 >>>>>>>> > Try adding the accessibility use flag, then emerge --update
141 >>>>>>>> > --deep --newuse world.
142 >>>>>>>> >
143 >>>>>>>> > -----Original Message-----
144 >>>>>>>> > From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
145 >>>>>>>> > Sent: March 29, 2010 10:25 AM
146 >>>>>>>> > To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
147 >>>>>>>> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome
148 >>>>>>>> > on gentoo
149 >>>>>>>> >
150 >>>>>>>> > Hello,
151 >>>>>>>> > Thanks for your reply. Here are my USE flags.
152 >>>>>>>> >
153 >>>>>>>> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4
154 >>>>>>>> > -arts sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
155 >>>>>>>> >
156 >>>>>>>> > My complete /etc/make.conf file is below.
157 >>>>>>>> > Thanks.
158 >>>>>>>> > Dave.
159 >>>>>>>> >
160 >>>>>>>> > /etc/make.conf:
161 >>>>>>>> > # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
162 >>>>>>>> > automatically # built this stage.
163 >>>>>>>> > # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example
164 >>>>>>>> > for a more # detailed example.
165 >>>>>>>> > # VMware emulates an Intel Core 2 Duo
166 >>>>>>>> > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
167 >>>>>>>> > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
168 >>>>>>>> > # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should
169 >>>>>>>> > be done lightly.
170 >>>>>>>> > # Please consult
171 >>>>>>>> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml
172 >>>>>>>> > before changing.
173 >>>>>>>> > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
174 >>>>>>>> >
175 >>>>>>>> > MAKEOPTS="-j2"
176 >>>>>>>> >
177 >>>>>>>> > ALSA_CARDS="ens1371"
178 >>>>>>>> >
179 >>>>>>>> > VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vesa vga"
180 >>>>>>>> >
181 >>>>>>>> > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse"
182 >>>>>>>> >
183 >>>>>>>> > LINGUAS="en en_US"
184 >>>>>>>> >
185 >>>>>>>> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4
186 >>>>>>>> > -arts sockets threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce"
187 >>>>>>>> >
188 >>>>>>>> >
189 >>>>>>>> > On 3/29/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
190 >>>>>>>> >> What are your use flags? You're probably missing someething.
191 >>>>>>>> >>
192 >>>>>>>> >> -----Original Message-----
193 >>>>>>>> >> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
194 >>>>>>>> >> Sent: March 28, 2010 10:52 AM
195 >>>>>>>> >> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
196 >>>>>>>> >> Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on
197 >>>>>>>> >> gentoo
198 >>>>>>>> >>
199 >>>>>>>> >> Hello,
200 >>>>>>>> >> I'm trying to get orca going on gentoo. The gnome version
201 >>>>>>>> >> used is 2.26. I've tried googling and asking on the orca
202 >>>>>>>> >> mailing list, without
203 >>>>>>>> > success.
204 >>>>>>>> >> I installed gentoo following the handbook except used a
205 >>>>>>>> >> serial terminal, this is in a virtual machine as i
206 >>>>>>>> >> unfortunately only have one machine. Later i proceeded to
207 >>>>>>>> >> install gnome, which failed. Before the install would
208 >>>>>>>> >> complete successfully libxml2 needed to be installed. I next
209 >>>>>>>> >> installed orca and started up gnome. I had to make some
210 >>>>>>>> >> changes to custom.conf so i could log in and loaded the
211 >>>>>>>> >> accessibility modules per instructions on the orca site.
212 >>>>>>>> >> When i tried to start orca via either the alt+f2, orca or in
213 >>>>>>>> >> a terminal with orca --text-setup i get to the second screen
214 >>>>>>>> >> where i'm prompted for the speech server always i choose
215 >>>>>>>> >> gnome speech and then i hear no more speech. I've also
216 >>>>>>>> >> installed the java-access-bridge, but am assuming
217 >>>>>>>> > there's a configuration step i'm missing.
218 >>>>>>>> >> Any suggestions appreciated.
219 >>>>>>>> >> Thanks.
220 >>>>>>>> >> Dave.
221 >>>>>>>> >>
222 >>>>>>>> >>
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229 >>>>>>>>
230 >>>>>>>
231 >>>>>>
232 >>>>>
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Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo Derek Roberts <bigd.vi.guy@×××××.com>