From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta9.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.199]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1APV1D-0000H4-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:53:51 -0500 Received: from beavis ([24.49.58.24]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031127225321.QZLD1561.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:53:21 -0500 From: "Jacob Schmude" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:59:46 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2717) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: <20031127221351.GA308@romuald.net.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 11/25/2003), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-Id: <20031127225321.QZLD1561.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> Subject: Re: gnome problems under slackware X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:53:51 -0000 Hi Did you configure X correctly? My guess is that X locked up either due to lack of configuration or incorrect configuration. Best way is to run xfree86-setup utility that comes with slack, then edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and put in your monitor's horizontal and vertical sync rates if you need to. Also, make sure you have a mouse plugged in, I've had X lock up on me for having no mouse. I think you may be going about starting gnome and gnopernicus the wrong way. What you probably want to do is: 1. link /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, this is probably why you only heard a very small bit of hd activity. Gnome was probably not the default window manager. 2. log in as your user in text mode and issue: gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true 3. export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge:gail-gnome export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 4. run startx 5. within gnome, press alt+f2 and type gnopernicus and press enter If everything's set up, that'll make it come up talking. I'd advise adding the export lines to .bash_profile. The gconftool-2 command only needs to be issued once. You can make gnopernicus start automatically from within gnome's control center accessibility options. Note in general, starting X apps from the console isn't the best way to do it. HTH On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:13:51 -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: >Hi all. > >I just installed the gnome and x stuff that comes with slackware 9.1, in hopes of playing with gnopernicus. > >When I do either telinit 4, or gdm, speakup starts to talk, and then is cut off. > >After the hd spins a bit, I get a beep from my pc speaker. Since I have a bell character in my /etc/issue, I am assuming that's where the beep in question comes from. I then go ahead and login, by typing my username and password as usual. After that, I hear a very small amount of hd activity, just like I do when logging in on a text console. > >I then try to do ctrl+alt+f1 to get a text console to start gnopernicus, but I don't get a text console. Can someone please enlighten me on how to bring up a text console?