gnome problems under slackware

gnome problems under slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

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?
Thanks in advance.

Greg


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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Jacob Schmude]

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?
	

Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks. I don't have a mouse attached, so I guess I'll need to wait with this until I get one.

Greg


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:59:46PM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> 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
> 

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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Alex Snow]

I didn't need to configure x at all on my slack 9.1 system. Once I 
installed x and gnome I ran pkgtool, chose the setup option, and reran 
the x window manager selection script. I chose gdm and the default and 
now all I need to do is run startx and gnome loads up fine.
On Thu, Nov 
27, 2003 at 05:34:01PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Thanks. I don't have a mouse attached, so I guess I'll need to wait with this until I get one.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:59:46PM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> 
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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
gnome-speech package.

When I run test-speech, I get:

1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
 

When I hit 1, I get :
Atempting to activate
OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.

Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
need to build it from source?
Thanks.

Greg


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:54:45PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> I didn't need to configure x at all on my slack 9.1 system. Once I 
> installed x and gnome I ran pkgtool, chose the setup option, and reran 
> the x window manager selection script. I chose gdm and the default and 
> now all I need to do is run startx and gnome loads up fine.

Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
> anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
> gnome-speech package.
> 
> When I run test-speech, I get:
> 
> 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
>  
> 
> When I hit 1, I get :
> Atempting to activate
> OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.
> 
> Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
> things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
> then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
> need to build it from source?

I can't speak for 9.1 but there certainly wasn't a Festival package 
available for Slack 9.0.  You cou,d always look in the extras directory on 
the ftp site.

In the even that you do have to build from sources, it's not a big deal, 
just takes a while.

Cheers.

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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

It doesn't seem to be in the general distro, nor in the extra
directory. I was hoping that there might be some other place on the
net where it was available from.

Greg


On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:08:59AM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
> > anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
> > gnome-speech package.
> > 
> > When I run test-speech, I get:
> > 
> > 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
> >  
> > 
> > When I hit 1, I get :
> > Atempting to activate
> > OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.
> > 
> > Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
> > things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
> > then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
> > need to build it from source?
> 
> I can't speak for 9.1 but there certainly wasn't a Festival package 
> available for Slack 9.0.  You cou,d always look in the extras directory on 
> the ftp site.
> 
> In the even that you do have to build from sources, it's not a big deal, 
> just takes a while.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> It doesn't seem to be in the general distro, nor in the extra
> directory. I was hoping that there might be some other place on the
> net where it was available from.

Now that someone's written a package management system to go along with 
pkgtool, it is possible, however up to now I've never seen Slackware 
packages anywhere other than the Slackware site itself.

Cheers.

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slackware package management, was: Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

Are you referring to the upgradepkg tool that was introduced in 9.0,
or is this something  even better?

Greg


On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:44:23AM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't seem to be in the general distro, nor in the extra
> > directory. I was hoping that there might be some other place on the
> > net where it was available from.
> 
> Now that someone's written a package management system to go along with 
> pkgtool, it is possible, however up to now I've never seen Slackware 
> packages anywhere other than the Slackware site itself.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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Re: slackware package management, was: Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Toby Fisher]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Are you referring to the upgradepkg tool that was introduced in 9.0,
> or is this something  even better?

That was one element of it, but there was a dependancy tracker introduced, 
written in Bash I believe.  I found it by looking around in the tree of 
slack 9.1, as I recall.

Cheers.

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Re: slackware package management, was: Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Ryan Mann]

There is also a program called Swaret that will download packages from
Slackware's FTP site and install them. It's in the extra sub directory of
slackware/extra.


On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Are you referring to the upgradepkg tool that was introduced in 9.0,
> > or is this something  even better?
>
> That was one element of it, but there was a dependancy tracker introduced,
> written in Bash I believe.  I found it by looking around in the tree of
> slack 9.1, as I recall.
>
> Cheers.
>
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Re: slackware package management, was: Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

Hmmm, so would these dependency tracking tools now put tgz packages on
a level equal to deb or rpm, or not yet?

Greg


On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:51:45AM -0500, Ryan Mann wrote:
> There is also a program called Swaret that will download packages from
> Slackware's FTP site and install them. It's in the extra sub directory of
> slackware/extra.
> 
> 

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Re: slackware package management, was: Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Steve Holmes]

I would compare this to Debian's apt facilities.  Though I haven't
personally used Debian I can still get away with comparing such:).  I
recently used swaret to upgrade one of my boxes from 9.0 to 9.1 and it
was slicker than owl shit!:)

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:21:04AM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hmmm, so would these dependency tracking tools now put tgz packages on
> a level equal to deb or rpm, or not yet?
> 
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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Yes, you need to install festival.  Festival isn't part of Gnome.

         Kenny

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:08:59AM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
> > anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
> > gnome-speech package.
> > 
> > When I run test-speech, I get:
> > 
> > 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
> >  
> > 
> > When I hit 1, I get :
> > Atempting to activate
> > OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.
> > 
> > Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
> > things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
> > then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
> > need to build it from source?
> 
> I can't speak for 9.1 but there certainly wasn't a Festival package 
> available for Slack 9.0.  You cou,d always look in the extras directory on 
> the ftp site.
> 
> In the even that you do have to build from sources, it's not a big deal, 
> just takes a while.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Alex Snow]

yyou need to get and install festival. when you are dropped back to 
your prompt that means something didn't work. if everything is 
installed festival should start talking and read a menu of config 
tests for you to perform.
for instructions on building festival and configuring for gnopernicus 
visit
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/gnopernicus.html
hth
On Thu, 
Nov 27, 2003 at 07:47:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
> anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
> gnome-speech package.
> 
> When I run test-speech, I get:
> 
> 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
>  
> 
> When I hit 1, I get :
> Atempting to activate
> OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.
> 
> Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
> things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
> then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
> need to build it from source?
> Thanks.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:54:45PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > I didn't need to configure x at all on my slack 9.1 system. Once I 
> > installed x and gnome I ran pkgtool, chose the setup option, and reran 
> > the x window manager selection script. I chose gdm and the default and 
> > now all I need to do is run startx and gnome loads up fine.
> 
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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Scott Berry]

How do I subscribe to the gnome mailing lists?

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Alex
Snow wrote:

> yyou need to get and install festival. when you are dropped back to
> your prompt that means something didn't work. if everything is
> installed festival should start talking and read a menu of config
> tests for you to perform.
> for instructions on building festival and configuring for gnopernicus
> visit
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/gnopernicus.html
> hth
> On Thu,
> Nov 27, 2003 at 07:47:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
> > anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
> > gnome-speech package.
> >
> > When I run test-speech, I get:
> >
> > 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
> >
> >
> > When I hit 1, I get :
> > Atempting to activate
> > OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.
> >
> > Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
> > things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
> > then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
> > need to build it from source?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:54:45PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > I didn't need to configure x at all on my slack 9.1 system. Once I
> > > installed x and gnome I ran pkgtool, chose the setup option, and reran
> > > the x window manager selection script. I chose gdm and the default and
> > > now all I need to do is run startx and gnome loads up fine.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>

Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Alex Snow]

send a message with the word subscribe in the subject to 
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On 
Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:58:17PM +0000, Scott Berry wrote:
> How do I subscribe to the gnome mailing lists?
> 
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Alex
> Snow wrote:
> 
> > yyou need to get and install festival. when you are dropped back to
> > your prompt that means something didn't work. if everything is
> > installed festival should start talking and read a menu of config
> > tests for you to perform.
> > for instructions on building festival and configuring for gnopernicus
> > visit
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/gnopernicus.html
> > hth
> > On Thu,
> > Nov 27, 2003 at 07:47:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
> > > anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
> > > gnome-speech package.
> > >
> > > When I run test-speech, I get:
> > >
> > > 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
> > >
> > >
> > > When I hit 1, I get :
> > > Atempting to activate
> > > OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.
> > >
> > > Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
> > > things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
> > > then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
> > > need to build it from source?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:54:45PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > > I didn't need to configure x at all on my slack 9.1 system. Once I
> > > > installed x and gnome I ran pkgtool, chose the setup option, and reran
> > > > the x window manager selection script. I chose gdm and the default and
> > > > now all I need to do is run startx and gnome loads up fine.
> > >
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> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> 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:

Rather than edit xf86config directly, you could always run xf86config, as 
root, which guides you through everything you need.

> 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.

The program xwmconfig, which you run as each user you want to use X with, 
will allow you to select your windoww manager.  This may be specific to 
Slackware, as I've not seen it in any other distro; it's a nice feature 
though when you may have a friend using your box who wants to use 
something more lightweight than gonme, who has sight.

Cheers.

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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Alex Snow]

Hi greg,
You don't need to start gnopernicus from a text console.
the way I do it is login to gnome, then press alt-f2 to bring up the 
run dialogue. I then type gnopernicus and press enter. gnopernicus 
hsould come up taling if you have gnome-speech configured properly.
On 
Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:13:51PM -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?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Greg
> 
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Re: gnome problems under slackware

[Christopher Moore]

These gnome-install questions are probably more appropriate for the
gnome-accessibility list.  However, as long as the subject has come up, I'm
curious what apps are accessible in the 2.4 release.  My understanding is
that mozilla is *NOT* and openoffice has limited accessibility.  I'm sure
that gnopernicus will become more stable over time, but until the
applications are accessible you won't be able to do much with it.  Another
point is that gnopernicus installation is not for the faint of heart.  If
speakup presented similar challenges the size of the speakup community would shrink
significantly.  

Let's give a here-here to the speakup team and console apps.

Chris