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

[David Mehler]

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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