Hi y'all, OK! I got it installed (Yay!) It took some doing, though, and thank goodness for Speakup. I ended up having to do something like this:
Boot (I don't know if it booted with or without accessibility support the final time, but no matter, cause Orca wasn't coming up on its own anyway) Start Orca Open the terminal, sudo su, then kill Orca Start Orca again Get the non-responsive Orca, so-- Alt-tab back to the terminal, type fg, then ctrl-c In another console, start up Speakup and kill off all the stuff that makes Orca go Go back to the gnome-terminal and restart Orca (which starts) Then run ubiquity... ...but I had to do this a couple times, because the partitioner was having an issue with my hard drive, which I finally solved by just wiping the partition table completely with fdisk. I got installed, but the city/timezone selection dialog didn't really work for me. Good thing it automatically assumed I was Americal/New_York. I was able to get past it with Orca's flat review keys. OK, so now I have a nice, shiny new Ubuntu running on a slow Celeron/800 with 512MB RAM (well, 504 after the 8MB of shared video memory). And goodness me is gnome ever slow. I think I'd like to change to using the Cepstral voices I have, but I don't dare at this point. Anything I can do to make it a little less painful? Is there a more better window manager for instance, or should I just go for a more better computer? But since I'm asking about Cepstral (well, I wasn't, but I did bring it up), in order to use it, do I need to build gnome-speech from source? I mean--I eventually plan on playing with mozilla3 and Openoffice, but not on this machine for heaven's sake. And any ideas (while I'm here) on getting speakup to load earlier (I just stuck it in /etc/modules, which is OK really) Apart from running really slow, which is at least 75% my fault for having a computersaurus, this looks pretty promising. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone 888-75-BUDDY Get a free online mall and earn on 1000 stores: http://www.powermall.us >From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make meals and baking easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net ...And see how a Watkins business can improve your life. Read our free Ebook: http://www.tastybiz.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
