gnome problems under slackware

[Scott Berry]

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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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