The problem is with Xwindows there's an aweful lot of ways to install that
badly and Xwindows is too stupid to be able to correct the installation
and then come up in a known state correctly. I found this out on debian,
though slackware offers a good install of what parts of XWindows it does
install. If you've never run XWindows before there's a good chance you're
going to have to configure it first and that is not easily done in my
experience. That's why not all members of the emacspeak blinux-list and
speakup list don't have memberships on the Linux G.U.I. accessibility
lists now, they want to have a pretty good idea either that something will
work or have a pretty robust instruction set for troubleshooting so they
can make it work. The only two Linux flavors I ever got Xwindows working
on at all with accessibility were fc3 and a couple versions of ubuntu to
date.
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Willem van der Walt wrote:
Cannot open display means that you hav'nt started X windows.
From your user account, run startx
and then wait quite a while. Then press alt-f2 and type orca -t there.
Speakup will not work when X is running.
If it is unsuccessful, pressing control-alt-f1 should get you back to a
talking console.
hth, Willem
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:
Hi,
Ok I have gnome working.
Now I am trying to install orca and get it to work.
I think I have it installed but when I type orca from a normal terminal that
speakup works in I get:
/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning:
could
not open display
warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/orca.py", line 55, in ?
import braille
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/braille.py", line 53, in ?
import brl
ImportError: No module named brl
I can't even run firefox this way.
Do I have to open gnome and go to run app type orca and paste output from
that?
Or should this work?
I am on debian eche.
I also added two lines to my sources.list file to get some testing stuff from
leny I think so I could get orca since it wasn't in eche.
Does anyone know what I should do?
Thanks for any help,
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