Trouble installing Ubuntu on VmWare?

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    Even alt+tab doesn't seem to work.  I still don't have speech.  This is 
decidedly odd--I highly doubt VmWare is to blame.  I just wonder how 
accurate the instructions I read are.
Thanks,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Parham" <parham16 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: Trouble installing Ubuntu on VmWare?


>I remember hearing that when you get to that place, you should press 
>alt+tab
> to change the focus to the installation window and then Orca will start
> talking again.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:20 PM
> Subject: OT: Trouble installing Ubuntu on VmWare?
>
>
>> Hi,
>>    I got the urge to try out Ubuntu with Orca and possibly Speakup as
>> well.  I downloaded the main desktop CD iso, booted the emulated PC from
>> it, and got speech working.
>>    However, I have had trouble following the instructions for getting an
>> installation started.  I go to the Gnome Terminal as instructed on the
>> Orca page on installations of Ubuntu, sudo su to root, andquit Orca.
>>    From this point, starting up Orca again doesn't seem to yield speech.
>> I type:
>> orca --no-setup --disable main-window
>> again as instructed.  I then get the message about Orca starting up and
>> switching to focus tracking mode.  However, this is all I get.  No speech
>> after at all.
>>    I can type 'ubiquity' as instructed, but am not sure if it comes up at
>> all.
>>    What I'm asking, then, is if anybody here could give me instructions 
>> on
>> how you got Ubuntu installed?
>> Thanks,
>> Zack.
>> PS: After it's installed, how would I use Speakup with it in text-mode?
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