Hi, I've only just come into this thread, as I had my first go at Orca yesterday with the aid of a sighted colleague. From a basis of very little experience, I'm guessing that Orca isn't loading automatically when you boot up. The music you get when the machine finishes booting is a Ubuntu feature, not an Orca one. The process we used to start Orca, was to wait for the sound to play, then to press ALT-2, which brings up the list of available applications. If you then type orca, and hit return, at least in the case of the distribution disk we used, Orca should come up. Regards, Tim Pennick -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick Sent: 11 December 2008 16:48 To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: Older Computers and New Speech Engines "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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list