Some Questions about Ubuntu and Orca

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

I had the identical problem which is why I got sighted help.  I don't 
know what the languages are about because it seems to make no 
difference.  I think somehow it starts the magnifier or something so you 
get no speech.  Also, turning off the computer is fine with a live CD as 
long as your hard disk partitions aren't mounted.  I ended up doing that 
also.  Obviously we had the identical problem and it is because the 
instructions are wrong.  I assume you're using the latest 7.10 release.  
Maybe their method worked in earlier releases but not now.  Yes, MPlayer 
works very well from the console but I haven't tried it under Gnome.  
It's recommended to build a custom version from source but not necessary.

Kelly Sapergia wrote:
>   Thanks for letting me know about MPlayer. Regarding starting 
> Orca, I had a heck of a time trying to get it going when I waited too 
> long at the boot prompt (last night was the first time I ran Ubuntu 
> on my own). When I pressed Alt+F2, then typed Orca, it said to choose 
> a language, followed by a list of various languages the thing could 
> speak. I tried pressing 1 for default, then enter, but that didn't 
> work. In the end, I impropperly shut down the computer (not a good 
> thing to do, I know), and was able to get the system started again 
> using the method you described.
>