Have you run spdconf yet? If you do, likely you will do well to run all diagnostics. You may also want to run pulseaudio --cleanupshm. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sat, 19 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, I initially wrote the lines a11-states=+reader and reader=orca into the > lightdm-gtk-greetter file, but orca didn't come up. then I started trying some > things here and there, and I ended up discovering an interesting fact. when I > start the display-manager service immediately after powering up and logging as > root at a console, orca doesn't come, but I am able to make it come if I > execute the following steps: > * Log as a normal user; > * Run spd-say to make speech-dispatcher say something; > * Log as root, then run display-manager and Orca comes up speaking. So, I > guess that speech-dispatcher is not being able to bring up pulseAudio as root > before it brings it up as a normal user. Why, I have no idea... In any case, I > haven't so far enabled display-manager to start at boot, because I'd like to > make sure it start speaking. > > thanks, > Cleverson > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list