Orca on Debian

[Matthys Terblanche]

Hi,
I don't know if anything broke down with the steps you took, but according
to my very limited experience the message about screen not in text mode
comes up usually if brltty was not running already at the time orca starts
up.
HTH
Matthys

-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Odd Martin Baanrud
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 10:22 PM
To: debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org
Cc: blinux-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Orca on Debian

Hello,
I post a copy to the Blinux list, since we are at least 2 persons with the
same problem.

This is what I did the last time I tried to get Orca working:

I installed the Etch release with BRLTTY, using the net installer.
When Tasksell asked me what to install, I selected "desktop" and "standard".
After the installation, Debian started, and after a while I got "Screen not
in text mode" on my braille display.
Then I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get into a text console, and loged in as root.
(At this time, the braille display is working.) Then I changed the APT
source from Etch to Lenny, and ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
When the system was upgraded, I edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst to pass the
"brltty=" argument to the newly installed kernel.
Then I installed gnome-orca with "apt-get install gnome-orca", and rebooted.

When I was sure that X was running, I typed my username and pressed enter,
then my password and pressed Enter.
I heared the harddrive spinning for a little while.
After it stopped, I pressed Alt+F2, and tried both "orca" and "orca
--setup".
I got no respons.
To make sure I was in the Gnome terminal, I typed "touch test".
When I loged into a text console with my braille display working, I saw that
file.

So now, I'm lost.
What should I do to get Orca running?

Regards, Martin

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