When you have heard the second sound, try pressing alt-f2 and type, blindly, orca See if it start speaking. If not, try alt-f2 again and type orca -t for setting up orca. There is a orca-list@xxxxxxxxx where all these answers are given, and there is a wikki for which I cannot recall the address right now too. If you hear the drums and another sound afterwards, It indicates that your x windows is started and secondly, that gnome has been started. Regards, Willem It On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Martin McCormick wrote: > "Martin" writes: > > Have you had someone verify for you that Orka is indeed being loaded after > > the successful boot up? > > Do you have a USB sound device kicking around? Maybe it could detect > > that. > > Excellent questions. I haven't had anybody look at the > screen yet. The boot process when Orca is loading is about 7 or > 8 minutes long. You can hear the CDROM loading lots of files > during that time and the demo on blindcooltech played that same > chord just before the speech saying "Welcome to Orca" started. > > Also, afterward, the disk starts up every time I bring a > finger over the mouse pad and move it around. > > The USB sound card idea is a good suggestion. Thanks. > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > 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