Trying to get a Dell Enspiron Laptop to Talk

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

You might be right, I'm not sure.  I was using the 7.10 or 8.04 live CD, 
so hopefully the problem is fixed in newer versions.  However, the 
sighted help said that Orca wasn't running and I certainly had no 
speech.  When I launched it manually, I saw no indication of two copies 
running.  I think it was a bug in the CD though because it worked fine 
on a different machine with more memory and the instructions for booting 
with speech were wrong.  As I say, I'm sure the problem is fixed in 9.04 
but I went with grml instead which I later converted into Debian 
unstable.  I would still like to try Ubuntu again, perhaps in a virtual 
machine.

Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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.
>