Speakup Kernel and Orca Getting Colder.

[Tony Baechler]

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Just do a fresh, new install.  I had similar problems as you're having
with an apparently broken Orca.  Doing a dresh install solved my problems.
 For the first time ever, I got a talking gdm3 login.

Be aware of a couple of things.  First, you must use an image with the
graphical installer.  The standard CD 1 works and that's what I
downloaded.  Just press "s" after a few seconds and you get speech, but
unfortunately no beep on boot.  Secondly, you must install the desktop
environment at the time you install the rest of the system to get
accessibility.  You can't install it later.  That's what happened to me
the first time.  I installed what I thought was the
"gnome-desktop-environment" task after system boot and I got no Orca.
Finally, GNOME 3.X is completely different than 2.X.  I got speech when I
logged in and I got the "Welcome to Orca" message but nothing else seemed
to happen.  I had to press either the Windows key or Alt-F1 to get the
overview panel to come up which seemed to talk fine, but I didn't know
what I was doing so I didn't get very far.

On 5/28/2013 4:28 AM, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> Well, I have made things worse but am not sure how I did it except
> that I tried altering the gnome console similar to the instructions
> but, obviously I didn't do any good. Now, I don't even get the login
> prompt from orca and when I kill gdm3, speakup does come back to life
> but isn't connected to anything. If I switch consoles, say, alt-F2,
> that console works and then the original tty1 works if I return to it
> but the orca login seems to be a thing of the past.
> 
> I am getting closer to just blowing the whole thing away and starting 
> over as the whole system so far, is a monument to frustrated attempts 
> to get orca to work.
> 
> The only reason why I haven't done this yet is that the new wheezy 
> netinstall disk doesn't talk yet.
> 
> When looking at the text files tied to the function keys on the wheezy 
> netinstall disk, it says the speakup option for booting is not 
> available on some images. Is the netinstall disk one of those since it 
> is slimmed down?
> 
> I can certainly get the standard disk1 image if that is the case.
> 
> I am so tired of silent boots without so much as a beep, counting key 
> presses that silently do something but who knows what and other
> complex tasks with no feedback at all. This is the electronic
> equivalent of a dog's chew toy. Spend hours and hours and nothing
> really changes.
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