well not really, I installed the gnome meta-package on debian includign all the X stuff. the debconf config stuff correctly found my hardware and resolution sutff. I ahd it up and runnign within 5 minutes. On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jude DaShiell wrote: > 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, > > > > > > -- > > > Daniel Dalton > > > > > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > > > d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, > > e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > > The full disclaimer details can be found at > > http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > > MailScanner, > > and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for > > their support. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list