orca
Andor Demarteau
andor at nl.linux.org
Fri Dec 14 23:24:23 UTC 2007
well not really, I installed the gnome meta-package on debian includign
all the X stuff.
the debconf config stuff correctly found my hardware and resolution sutff.
I ahd it up and runnign within 5 minutes.
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> The problem is with Xwindows there's an aweful lot of ways to install that
> badly and Xwindows is too stupid to be able to correct the installation and
> then come up in a known state correctly. I found this out on debian, though
> slackware offers a good install of what parts of XWindows it does install.
> If you've never run XWindows before there's a good chance you're going to
> have to configure it first and that is not easily done in my experience.
> That's why not all members of the emacspeak blinux-list and speakup list
> don't have memberships on the Linux G.U.I. accessibility lists now, they want
> to have a pretty good idea either that something will work or have a pretty
> robust instruction set for troubleshooting so they can make it work. The
> only two Linux flavors I ever got Xwindows working on at all with
> accessibility were fc3 and a couple versions of ubuntu to date.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>
> > 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,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel Dalton
> > >
> > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
> > > d.dalton at iinet.net.au
> > >
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