Problems with installing ubuntu

[Marcel Oats]

Sometimes I have to restart (actually run) Orca, as it will not 
automatically start.  Also, when Ubuntu initially starts, Orca speaks 
the signon message, but then goes to sleep kind of thing, until I do 
something like press alt+f1 to open the menus, or alt+f2 to run an app.

Marcel
At 08:04 Ay M 23/11/2006, you wrote:
>Hello,
>Thanks for that information, got brltty working (using second method). It
>seems like orca isn't behaving as I would expect though, sometimes it never
>seems to respond (don't know if something is happening in gnome, suspect
>that something might as the CD sometimes spins up when I try some stuff).
>This is things like reading applications, sometimes its own control panel,
>and sometimes anything.
>
>Also I found out why it wasn't speaking. While I was in text mode, I loaded
>alsamixer, everything was muted. I raised the volume and orca now speaks
>(when it responds). I doubt it is system specs as I have 2.4GHz pentium4 and
>1.5 GB ram. Could there be a problem with the CD drive I am using, it is a
>slower (32x read I think) CDRW, but I use this one as the other I have in
>the machine is a cheap one that doesn't always work properly although faster
>(when I installed slackware, and it searched for the CD using the cheap
>drive, it required the disk to be ejected and re-inserted before it was
>recognised).
>
>Any possible solution using orca, or is there a text install where I can use
>brltty and/or speakup?
>
>Its a shame that it doesn't quite work straight of the box on all systems,
>just a good job I tried it with my laptop first and had it just working, or
>I probably would have just passed on it.
>
>From
>Michael Whapples
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser at gmx.net>
>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:44 AM
>Subject: Re: Problems with installing ubuntu
>
>
> > Hi,
> > i downloaded the alternate version and with it, you can install with
> > brailesupport.
> > When booting press "f6" and type:
> > "install brltty=cb,ttyS0,de"
> > which worked for my combibraile and german layout.
> >
> > Please be aware, that on the installed Partition brltty does not start
> > automatically and you have to make the changes yourself in the
> > brltty.conf.
> >
> > another method to check on the live-cd:
> > press ctrl+alt+f1"
> > type sudo brltty -b cb -d ttyS0 -t de
> > (the commands for my Brailedisplay) and the Braildisplay will work
> > then orca -t
> > -which is a textversion to setup Orca, with Speech and braile
> >
> > good success
> > Lutz
> >
>
>
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