gnome problems under slackware

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Fri Nov 28 18:44:31 EST 2003


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Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:58:17PM +0000, Scott Berry wrote:
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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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