Re: root problem solved.

2007-09-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
mike coulombe wrote: Hi, incase anyone else has this problem, here is what I found. I had someone look at the login window, and there was a box to check for admin login. Where in the login window settings is this? I don't see the box, so can't check it. My admin login has been broken

All these old kernels...

2007-08-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks. I have a whole bunch of old and obsolete kernels on my hard drive and every time there comes a new kernel my /boot/grub/menus.lst gets updated and ofcourse then includes all my old and obsolete kernels, so i have to go in and trim down the menu.lst file by hand so that i can use my dual

Re: Web page creation and publishing with speech

2007-07-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I have looked very very briefly at a gtk-based html editor called Bluefish, that looks quite ok. There's also another tool called Screem or something like that that also looks quite good. How much of those editors that actually are accessible, i don't know but they're always worth a try. /Krister

Just out of curiosity

2007-05-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi people. Well, the time starts to approach when i can seriously consider switching from Windows to Ubuntu, which is very impressing today. What i wonder now out of curiosity is how do people out there solve their ocr-ing tasks? Is it Ocrad or Gocr from a terminal or is it rebooting and changing

Re: basic screen reader question

2007-04-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Does Gnopernicus allow you to do something Orca does not? Yes, in fact it does. You can emulate mouse commands such as drag and drop with Gnopernicus something which Orca can't at present, and sometimes this is necessary. Gnopernicus also allowed for moving of the

Weird upgrading problem

2007-03-07 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey all, I was trying to upgrade my Feisty to the latest version this morning when to my surprice i encountered a strange little problem. I noticed that the upgrading procedure, (made with the command aptitude dist-upgrade) had stopped so i went to check the screen and there was a dialog that

Re: espeak and orca

2007-01-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 17:56 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: * For those who have eSpeak working (which option did you use the experimental Orca support or the gnome-speech-SD bridge?) -- how is it working? Any issues? Well it's working quite ok, i'd say. The only issues i have as of now

Re: espeak and orca

2007-01-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:04 -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: Normally, I use espeak with the speech-dispatcher gnome-speech driver. This driver doesn't support the read to end command, so I either switch to festival when I want to read an entire document, or use the direct speech-dispatcher backend

Mounting Windows partitions/discs from Gnome in Feisty?

2006-12-15 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I'm almost embarrased to ask this, because i think it was discussed a couple weeks ago, but i have just recently gotten Feisty to work so i ask this question now. I can see .desktop files in the Computer folder in Gnome that point to my windows partitions, one with VFat and the other with Ntfs

Re: getting updates need info

2006-12-15 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi Mike and others. I don't have any answer to the first question, however i think i know why users groups no longer work. It seems as when you want to add/manipulate users and groups in Feisty, you now need to be root to do this, and the speech following while switching users still doesn't seem

Can't start gnome in Feisty - the saga continues

2006-12-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks. Well, i will try to describe the problem i'm having as far as i can remember. I have a horrible memory for syntax, error messages in detail and other geek and non-geek jargon but i'll try as best as i can. When i'm at the login prompt of Ubuntu Feisty and have typed my username and

Re: TTS voices project

2006-12-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I'd be glad to help in any way possible with the Swedish voice, but as i understood it from a friend who already is trying to help out it's a nightmare to put together a voice. How do you suggest one started if i no nothing about the ins and outs of Espeak? /Krister Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

Re: Ubuntu Release Schedule (was Re: need some info)

2006-12-01 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there, Is it safe to switch my sources.list from Edgy to Feisty? I take it i just change the lines that say edgy to feisty or is there something else i should do? /Krister Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Willie Walker wrote: Ubuntu Folks: Is there a URL that we can point users to that contains

Weird problem on my Ubuntu system

2006-10-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks. First, i'm sorry for the cross posting, but i am at a loss now, and don't know what to do and maybe if one don't know the other one will. I have a wierd problem, to say the least on my Ubuntu system (Latest Edgi, Orca from Cvs and ESpeak but it also occurrs on Festival). The problem i'm

Re: Orca Weird problem on my Ubuntu system

2006-10-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
. ;-) ;-) ;-) Will On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:25 +0100, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi folks. First, i'm sorry for the cross posting, but i am at a loss now, and don't know what to do and maybe if one don't know the other one will. I have a wierd problem, to say the least on my Ubuntu system (Latest Edgi, Orca from Cvs

Re: A Bit OT: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background, Long)

2006-10-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 20:49 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 21:21:16 +0300, a écrit : You need text config files and the shell as soon as something does not have a front-end or is not thought to be important enough to be configured by the average user.

Almost ashamed to ask but ...

2006-10-09 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey folks, Krister here with another little query for you. I'm trying to play an .mp3 file by selecting it on the Gnome desktop and then hitting the enter key. But instead of nice music, a dialog comes up saying that Totem can't play this type of file since i don't have a decoder for .mp3

Re: orca and lsr updated.

2006-10-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, At least Orca will, that i'm sure very soon be available as a package. Dunno if LSR is available right now, but if it is, it'll also be upgraded. /Krister On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:18 -0500, mike coulombe wrote: Hi, I see that both orca and lsr have new versions out. Will there be packages

Re: where is disk managet in edgy

2006-10-05 Thread Krister Ekstrom
mike coulombe wrote: Hi, in dapper there is a disk manager to enable windows partitions. I don't see this in edgy. Does anyone know the correct name of the package to install to get this. That's a package that i to am interested in getting, so please provide the name to the list. --

Re: building elinks with javascript support breaks Gnome

2006-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I can confirm that it is so. I tried to install the necessary components to get the Javascript support and had my gnome removed. I had to install it again, and this removed the javascript components... /Krister On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:39 -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: Hi. Since Firefox

Re: Team meeting

2006-10-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 16:46 +0200, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: For those new to IRC see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XChatHowto Will this chat client work with Orca? I assume it does, but ask anyways. Is this a meeting where everyone's invited? Sorry for the newbyish questions. I just

Re: idea for the installer

2006-09-27 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks, I don't think the problem is the installer being accessible or not, at least in Ubuntu, the graphical installer works very well, at least if you have a hard drive dedicated to Linux. The thing that can be tricky, or rather that is tricky is that speecha and braille don't follow when you

Should i file a bug, or is this a known issue or am i missing something obvious?

2006-09-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks, I'm running Ubuntu Edgy on an IBM Net Vista with a built-in Intel Graphics card model 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV. The computer's got 512 Meg ram and i run Linux on a 40 Gig hard drive. The problem i'm having is that my desktop in Ubuntu is wobbly to say the least. Every time i do something in

Some problems i have with my Ubuntu system

2006-09-05 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks, I have some problems with my Ubuntu Edgy system running on an IBM Net Vista with a built-in Intel graphics card, (I810). I made a dist-upgrade this morning, european time and since then i no longer have a working Swedish keyboard layout, or rather it works, but Orca doesn't. When i have

Found my live cd problem, now a question

2006-08-29 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Krister here. I wrote to the list and asked a couple days back about a problem i had when starting up the Ubuntu live cd. It looked like X didn't start correctly. It turned out that it didn't, because it uses a screen depth apparently not supported by my screen. It wanted to use 24-bit color,