orca

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at shellworld.net
Sat Dec 15 00:48:50 UTC 2007


I didn't manage to replicate your experience when I tried that.  After I 
did it the display was still left unset and several other things were left 
broken in XWindows.  One of them got an official bug report filed.



On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Andor Demarteau wrote:

> 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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