From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dukecmmtar02.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.49]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JTiFD-00014H-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:40:07 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [70.166.17.50]) by dukecmmtar02.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20080225183937.SLR13126.dukecmmtar02.coxmail.com@[192.168.0.100]> for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:39:37 -0500 Message-ID: <47C30B70.5000800@baechler.net> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:39:44 -0800 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Some Questions about Ubuntu and Orca References: <0JWR00JERNDI1IC0@bgmpomr1.sasknet.sk.ca> <47C302DD.3050109@baechler.net> <0JWT00K3O48IP220@bgmpomr2.sasknet.sk.ca> In-Reply-To: <0JWT00K3O48IP220@bgmpomr2.sasknet.sk.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:40:07 -0000 Hi, I had the identical problem which is why I got sighted help. I don't know what the languages are about because it seems to make no difference. I think somehow it starts the magnifier or something so you get no speech. Also, turning off the computer is fine with a live CD as long as your hard disk partitions aren't mounted. I ended up doing that also. Obviously we had the identical problem and it is because the instructions are wrong. I assume you're using the latest 7.10 release. Maybe their method worked in earlier releases but not now. Yes, MPlayer works very well from the console but I haven't tried it under Gnome. It's recommended to build a custom version from source but not necessary. Kelly Sapergia wrote: > Thanks for letting me know about MPlayer. Regarding starting > Orca, I had a heck of a time trying to get it going when I waited too > long at the boot prompt (last night was the first time I ran Ubuntu > on my own). When I pressed Alt+F2, then typed Orca, it said to choose > a language, followed by a list of various languages the thing could > speak. I tried pressing 1 for default, then enter, but that didn't > work. In the end, I impropperly shut down the computer (not a good > thing to do, I know), and was able to get the system started again > using the method you described. >