Ok. So I got my fresh wheezy install done in another vm. Turns out that gnome speaks, but isn't very talkative. What I mean is that for example ctrl+alt+d gives no indication I'm on the desktop. Pressing alt+f1 tells me I'm in a menu, but arrowing up/down/left/right gives no speech. Doesn't matter, since I don't want to migrate to a fresh install, I want to get this one working. I did discover that pulse works in the fresh system, including mplayer, so I cheated. I got rid of /etc/pulse in my upgraded vm, and replaced it with the one from the fresh vm. I put the original /usrbin/pulseaudio back into place, set mplayer to use pulse for output, and rebooted. Mplayer seems to work now with no pulse issues. Since I now know the gnome issues aren't virtualbox related, I ran startx as greg on both virtual systems, and compared my .xsession-errors. Turns out they're similar except for one difference. On the upgraded system, my .xsession-errors shows this repeatedly: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail-gnome" I seem to have all the gail stuff installed though: i A libgail-3-0 - GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library i A libgail-common - GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library i A libgail18 - GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library I did some googling on this, but can't find anything specifically related to gnome3, and 32-bit wheezy. If I could figure this out, I can probably get gnome talking. Any thoughts? Greg On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 06:30:18PM -0400, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote: > Let us know if you get anything to speak in gnome. What I did to get > console things to speak again was to change /etc/pulse/client.conf to > autospawn=no but maybe that breaks gnome. > -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/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
