[Trisquel-users] GNOME 3.4 Accessibility Crashes and Atom processors?

[Dave Hunt]

Hi,

This netbook has a duel-core Atom cpu, Intel graphics, 1 GB ram, Atharos 
wifi, etc.  It ran Trisquel 5.0 and 5.5 with some bugs in the Orca 
screen reader, but was stable.  In early versions of Trisquel 6, I began 
having occasional crashes of the accessibility, especially when using 
abrowser on sites with lots of dynamically-changing content of parts of 
the site, that doesn't reload the entire page.  Since abrowser updated 
to version 19, the problem is much worse.  A small amount of browsing in 
youtube is a sure way to crash the accessibility.  This happens with a 
"regular" Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 17, and Debian Wheezy, as well; these all 
have GNOME 3.4.2 in common.  Interestingly, it doesn't happen on 
Opensuse 12.2, which uses the same GNOME.  GNOME 3.6, as packaged in 
Opensuse 12.3, also does not exhibit this trouble.  The accessibility 
forums are silent on this.  I found references, in launchpad, to a bug 
regarding the Atom cpu mentioning that the 'lscpu' command throws a 
floating point exception.  This does happen; I've confirmed it.  Does an 
error in the Atom processor make the accessibility fragile?  If I could 
apply a fix for this problem, I'd return to using and recommending 
Trisquel 6.0, especially for its accessibility, small footprint, ease of 
use, etc...



Any ideas?



-Dave  H.