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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