I remember hearing that when you get to that place, you should press alt+tab to change the focus to the installation window and then Orca will start talking again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:20 PM Subject: OT: Trouble installing Ubuntu on VmWare? > Hi, > I got the urge to try out Ubuntu with Orca and possibly Speakup as > well. I downloaded the main desktop CD iso, booted the emulated PC from > it, and got speech working. > However, I have had trouble following the instructions for getting an > installation started. I go to the Gnome Terminal as instructed on the > Orca page on installations of Ubuntu, sudo su to root, andquit Orca. > From this point, starting up Orca again doesn't seem to yield speech. > I type: > orca --no-setup --disable main-window > again as instructed. I then get the message about Orca starting up and > switching to focus tracking mode. However, this is all I get. No speech > after at all. > I can type 'ubiquity' as instructed, but am not sure if it comes up at > all. > What I'm asking, then, is if anybody here could give me instructions on > how you got Ubuntu installed? > Thanks, > Zack. > PS: After it's installed, how would I use Speakup with it in text-mode? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
