a reboot should turn numlock back to default if this is the issue. If you are getting other sounds, ie not muted, vo should work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:18 PM Subject: Re: SOS: can't get mu VO to work after upgrading to Leopard
Dear Simon, Is it possible that you pressed FN+num lock by mistake? The most likely things are: (1) you don't have the volume up high enough to hear the VoiceOver voice or (2) you accidentally managed to press the num lock (F6) key so that your keyboard is not sending the characters you expect. (Item 2 happened to Richie Gardenhire, and is a particular problem to be aware of if you press keys while VoiceOver is not running). If you switched hardware and software functions for the Function keys. I think you need to press FN+F6 to toggle the num lock. I'm sure there is no problem with your VoiceOver install. I think it is one of the two problems I mentioned above. Make sure you (now) use FN+F5 to put your MacBook at maximum speaker volume before you try anything else. Cheers, Esther On Dec 12, 2007, at 02:10PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: >Dear Esther, > >Tried it all to no avail. Before installing Leopard, I had changed the >keyboard setting to desktop to avoid having to press the FN key all the >time, and that setting seems to have been kept by leopard. I know that >because when I press FN with the functions keys, I hear various funny >noises >which I recgonise as changing volume or brightness. I've tried hitting the >f6 key but I don't know now whether it's on or off. I've tried various >combinations and VO is still silent. Does it sound serious to you? > >Simon >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by >theblind" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:54 PM >Subject: Re: SOS: can't get mu VO to work after upgrading to Leopard > > >> Hi Simon, >> >> Remember that on a Macbook you need to hold down the FN key as well as >> the Command and F5 keys to get VoiceOver to start up. You may also want >> to hold down the F5 key on the Macbook for a while before turning on >> VoiceOver, since I think it's the hardware Volume up key on the Macbook. >> (The top row should be Escape, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5. ) >> >> The other possible gotcha if your VoiceOver was not turned on before your >> friend left is that you hit the F6 (num lock) key on the keyboard >> instead >> of >> F5. If so, try to press F6 again to toggle num lock off, and issue your >> command >> of FN+Command+F5 to turn on VoiceOver. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> >> On Wed December 12, 2007, at 01:42PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: >>>Dear All, >>> >>>I've just installed Leopard on my new Macbook. it turned out that it came >>>with Tiger installed, and leopard on a CD. So I've just had it installed >>>with sighted assistance, as I'm not that experienced in VO yet. All went >>>smoothly and my friend has gone now. But when I tried to get my VO to >>>start with the usual combination of keys Command+f5 so that i could use >>>my >>>Macbook, nothing happens. Does anyone know what might have happened? This >>>command worked perfectly well in tiger. >>> >>>S O S from desperate simon! >>> >>> >> > > > >
