installing ubuntu with what may be missing pieces

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:31:16AM -0400, Bruce Noblick wrote:
> Orca worked well enough 
> for me but it did not give me access to some of the more exotic things on 
> the system menu.  I could enter the required password and then nothing 
> would happen.

See:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin

>
> I also did not see a way to get to a shell to type my own commands.

Inside gnome, do the following:

1. Press alt+f2.

2. When the run dialogue comes up, type "gnome-terminal" without the
   quotes, and hit enter.

This will get you a shell prompt, which will speak via orca. You can
of course get a real text console on tty1-6, but you'll need speakup,
or another text-console screen reader
to use that.

> I 
> also have a dectalk express connected to the only com port this computer 
> has. Would it be possible to get orca to use it?

Not that I know of, but I could be wrong.

> In reading between the 
> lines, do I infer correctly that for now, I will not be able to have 
> speech, even if I do manage to get to a place where I can type commands?  

See above.

> Would it be enough to find a way to install another kernel with speakup 
> already installed in it? If so, how would one do that?

I still do upgrades/package installation under a text console with
speakup. Someone who does these things in gnome will have to help you there.

Greg


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