Re: orca

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Cannot open display means that you hav'nt started X windows.
>From your user account, run startx
and then wait quite a while.  Then press alt-f2 and type orca -t there.
Speakup will not work when X is running.
If it is unsuccessful, pressing control-alt-f1 should get you back to a 
talking console.
hth, Willem



On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Ok I have gnome working.
> Now I am trying to install orca and get it to work.
> I think I have it installed but when I type orca from a normal terminal that
> speakup works in I get:
> /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning:
> could
> not open display
>   warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/orca.py", line 55, in ?
>     import braille
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/braille.py", line 53, in ?
>     import brl
> ImportError: No module named brl
> 
> I can't even run firefox this way.
> Do I have to open gnome and go to run app type orca and paste output from
> that?
> Or should this work?
> I am on debian eche.
> I also added two lines to my sources.list file to get some testing stuff from
> leny I think so I could get orca since it wasn't in eche.
> 
> Does anyone know  what I should do?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
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> 
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