Craig. Check out the live cd on debian.live.net. Gnome on it works fine, it's just that speakup gets clobered by pulse. Gene >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 >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at linux-speakup.org >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
