From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (linserver.romuald.net.eu.org [63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BF610BE0 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:50:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 21187 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Apr 2009 12:50:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:50:26 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Trying to get a Dell Enspiron Laptop to Talk Message-ID: <20090429195026.GA21091@localhost.localdomain> References: <200904282052.n3SKqTac093300@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <49F830C3.5060301@baechler.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49F830C3.5060301@baechler.net> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:50:26 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI, I've found that when running with 256M of ram, and having orca set to launch after login, it does in fact launch, even though it seems not to have launched. My solution is to login, wait a few minutes, do an insert+q, tab over to the quit button, or whatever it is called, hit enter, wait maybe half a minute, and restart orca. You should find that the machine is more responsive with only one instance of orca running, instead of 2. Note that even though the orca docs say that orca will kill any previously running copies of itself when another copy is launched, this isn't the case for me when running under 256M of ram, thus the need to use insert+q to get out of orca, instead of just starting it up right there. This is my experience on 256M of ram, and your results may of course vary. Greg On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:49:39AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > I don't know a lot about Ubuntu, but I've read that if you boot directly > to the installer instead of the live CD, it will take a while but it > will install and work fine with 256 MB of RAM. You might need sighted > help, I'm not sure if the installer talks or not but it sounds like it > wouldn't in your case anyway. If you don't mind giving it a try, I > would be interested to know if Orca works after the install without > booting into the live CD. Also, on a machine here with the same amount > of memory, I always had to start Orca manually after it booted, even > though I had sighted help verify that I was in fact booting into the > mode where speech should come up automatically. Once I manually started > Orca, it was very slow but it eventually came up. I would definitely > not recommend running solely from the live CD because it's painfully > slow but just doing an install is supposed to work. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn4r4EACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDUGACgrWNksS/hmkI3YyPHhfiXnOCX w/IAoMDLVAbhnLQ/H0jpDi7rvWbXDWl1 =zpQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----