Tim is right! Had the same issue and it has been addressed as described. Good luck! Marian. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list