Re: debian and gnopernicus

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Jude: Don't use twm or icewm as window managers - for best results you'll want to install and run the Gnome desktop env which includes the metacity window manager. Starting gnome-session after startx may work for you. regards Bill On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 01:00, Jude DaShiell wrote: So far

cwelug kickstart remote install also failed

2006-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I found a remote install script for ubuntu over at cwelug.org and tried using it to install ubuntu with no good luck. End result on reboot was a grub stage 1.5 error 22. Having tried to install with sighted assistance earlier we got a grub error 18 then. So I found out from sighted help who

Re: debian and gnopernicus

2006-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Bill, thanks I'll try that. As things stand startx got me an error log didn't think much of my screen selection and was missing a core pointer. On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Bill Haneman wrote: Hi Jude: Don't use twm or icewm as window managers - for best results you'll want to install and run

DECtalk Express How-To?

2006-07-28 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi all. I have a DECtalk Express and would like to get it working -- ultimately with Orca, but for now I'll settle for just working. smile Could someone please point me to the appropriate how-to? Thanks much in advance! Joanie ___

Re: DECtalk Express How-To?

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi Joanie, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Hi all. I have a DECtalk Express and would like to get it working -- ultimately with Orca, but for now I'll settle for just working. smile Could someone please point me to the appropriate how-to? The only way to make an express work with orca is by using

Re: DECtalk Express How-To?

2006-07-28 Thread Jason White
I think your best option would be to install Emacspeak first, then when you run orca --setup, select Emacspeak speech server and dtk-exp as your speech server. Depending on how your distribution handles Emacspeak, you may need to set an additional environment variable to specify the port to which

Re: DECtalk Express How-To?

2006-07-28 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Jason, and Mike, and Al. It's working! You guys are great!! Thanks so much for your help. --Joanie On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:00 +1000, Jason White wrote: I think your best option would be to install Emacspeak first, then when you run orca --setup, select Emacspeak speech server and dtk-exp

Orca under Debian Unstable

2006-07-28 Thread Jason White
Has anyone managed to run Orca successfully under Debian Unstable? I get the following error: [/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --setup Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/bin/orca, line 30, in ? import orca.orca File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py, line 45, in ?