I would not have thought that sound would be muted after the start-up sound. How long are you waiting for orca, things don't happen instantly when running from CD, possibly a few seconds (time may vary on different speed CD drives and computers). While on the bit regarding speed of operations, do you wait for the CD to stop spinning, as it might be another short time (again varies) before the desktop is fully loaded for you to press f2 and type Orca. Should you do this early, well it doesn't do anything. I know that it has been reported before (and from experience one of my laptop or desktop, can't remember which) don't stop spinning the CD at the boot menu (where you press f5) to set Orca to be loaded automatically, you can use a couple of seconds after the CD starts as a guide if it doesn't stop should you wish to try pressing f5 and that way. I know from experience, multiple sound cards can be confusing, to know which ubuntu is going to use, but if you are getting the start-up sound, then you must have the default sound card sorted, and I would have thought that Orca would use that. From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Malver" <mmalver@xxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 2:23 PM Subject: RE: Ubumtu liveCD soundcard support I'll try once more. For now, when I hear the startup sound, I hit alt-f2, type Orca <enter> And nothing happens. Someone mentioned that soundcards get muted sometimes. Could this happen after the startup sound? That doesn't make much sense to me, but fitured I'd ask. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Ricky Enger Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:14 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: RE: Ubumtu liveCD soundcard support Hi, If you hear the startup sound but Orca isn't speaking, it probably means f5 wasn't pressed soon enough to access the menu and choose accessibility. No big deal. Once you hear the startup sound, just do the following. Press alt-f2, type orca and press enter. Orca will ask a couple of questions, and once you've answered those you'll be told you need to log out and back in again for the accessibility flag to be initialized. Press control-alt-backspace to log out. The cd will log you in again automatically, so once you hear the startup sound again, just press alt-f2, type orca and press enter. After that, you should be good to go. Hth, Ricky At 08:17 AM 1/7/2007, you wrote: >My cd keeps spinning also, though I do hear the start up sound >eventually. Is there any other indecator I can use to make this work. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >On Behalf Of J?rgen Dengo >Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:50 PM >To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >Subject: Ubumtu liveCD soundcard support > > >hey. I have a question. If ubuntu stops spinning and I press f5 3 and >double-enter. It should work, but my cd drive keeps spinning and I >don't know, does the ubuntu supports my sb audigy 4 and realtech >soundcards? with regards >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
