Trying to get a Dell Enspiron Laptop to Talk

[Gregory Nowak]

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FYI, I've found that when running with 256M of ram, and having orca
set to
launch after login, it does in fact launch, even though it seems not
to have launched. My solution is to login, wait a few minutes, do an
insert+q, tab over to the quit button, or whatever it is called, hit
enter, wait maybe half a minute, and restart orca. You should find
that the machine is more responsive with only one instance of orca
running, instead of 2. Note that even though the orca docs say that
orca will kill any previously running copies of itself when another
copy is launched, this isn't the case for me when running under 256M of
ram, thus the need to use insert+q to get out of orca, instead of just
starting it up right there. This is my experience on 256M of ram, and
your results may of course vary.

Greg


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:49:39AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> I don't know a lot about Ubuntu, but I've read that if you boot directly  
> to the installer instead of the live CD, it will take a while but it  
> will install and work fine with 256 MB of RAM.  You might need sighted  
> help, I'm not sure if the installer talks or not but it sounds like it  
> wouldn't in your case anyway.  If you don't mind giving it a try, I  
> would be interested to know if Orca works after the install without  
> booting into the live CD.  Also, on a machine here with the same amount  
> of memory, I always had to start Orca manually after it booted, even  
> though I had sighted help verify that I was in fact booting into the  
> mode where speech should come up automatically.  Once I manually started  
> Orca, it was very slow but it eventually came up.  I would definitely  
> not recommend running solely from the live CD because it's painfully  
> slow but just doing an install is supposed to work.
>


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