-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:31:16AM -0400, Bruce Noblick wrote: > Orca worked well enough > for me but it did not give me access to some of the more exotic things on > the system menu. I could enter the required password and then nothing > would happen. See: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin > > I also did not see a way to get to a shell to type my own commands. Inside gnome, do the following: 1. Press alt+f2. 2. When the run dialogue comes up, type "gnome-terminal" without the quotes, and hit enter. This will get you a shell prompt, which will speak via orca. You can of course get a real text console on tty1-6, but you'll need speakup, or another text-console screen reader to use that. > I > also have a dectalk express connected to the only com port this computer > has. Would it be possible to get orca to use it? Not that I know of, but I could be wrong. > In reading between the > lines, do I infer correctly that for now, I will not be able to have > speech, even if I do manage to get to a place where I can type commands? See above. > Would it be enough to find a way to install another kernel with speakup > already installed in it? If so, how would one do that? I still do upgrades/package installation under a text console with speakup. Someone who does these things in gnome will have to help you there. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjr09AACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyB/SwCghGJ7DAO60Rn7ETb3qcJjjIsT VqYAn1+j21WrlG73BwfKxjpdg64BSlrw =ee6X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
