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

[Derek Roberts]

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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