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

[Derek Roberts]

I'm just a bit surprised the none of the recent iso's I've tried have
a working speakup/espeakup. I was able to do it over ssh in a vmware
system and get the espeakup and speakup working in the vm, but I want
to get it on my real pc and don't have another box I can hook up and
play with.

Although I haven't tried this in a couple months so the situation may
have changed. What's the most recent gentoo cd that has a working
speakup with espeakup on it that people know of?

On 4/13/10, James Homuth <james@×××××××.com> wrote:
> Give input settings similar to this a try. This works in my /etc/make.conf.
>
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev"
>
>  If you're not on a laptop, you may not need synaptics, but I'd throw the
> others in there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Mehler [mailto:dave.mehler@×××××.com]
> Sent: April 13, 2010 1:58 AM
> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo
>
> 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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