installing ubuntu 7.4 with speech

[Christian]

Hi Keith,
I have just installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty myself and here is what you have to do.
Boot the CD and press F5 and then 3 and enter twice to boot with Orca.
When you get speech do the following
1. Press Alt+F2 to get into the Run Application dialog
2. Type "gnome-terminal" and press Enter.
3. In the resulting Terminal window, type "sudo su" and press Enter. You should hear
"root at ubuntu colon slash home slash ubuntu pound".
4. Press Insert Q to quit Orca. At this point, the Orca quit confirmation dialog will
appear. You need to tab to the "Yes" button and press Space. At this point, you will
have no speech, but focus is still in the terminal window.
Type "orca --no-setup --disable main-window&" and press Enter. This will cause speech
to resume, but Orca will now be running as root (the equivalent of Administrator
in Windows).
6. Type "ubiquity" and press Enter.
These instructions can be found with more info at:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuFeisty
And yes when the installation is finished and you have logged in you will get speech.
Hope it helps!
All the best,
Christian

On 2007-04-27 at 19:37 lists at barrettpianos.co.uk wrote:

>Hi All
>
>Just joined this list in the hope of some help.
>
>I have the 7.4 ubuntu but am loosing speech when I try to install.
>
>The only instructions I can find relate to previous versions so perhaps
>this is 
>where I am going wrong.
>I boot the system and select f5 3 and a couple of returns.  I eventually
>get 
>speech and I land in the orca preferences although the instructions tell
>me I 
>will need to use alt tabb to get there.  
>
>Not sure how I am meant to leave the preferences as the instructions 
>mention a "close button".  I am not finding one and tabbing gives me an ok 
>or preferences button.  Hitting enter on ok does not seem to have any 
>affect.
>
>At this point, continuing with the instructions, I get as far as typing
>sudo su 
>and quitting and restarting orca.  When I type ubiquity I loose speech 
>totally.
>
>Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on what may be happening or 
>any instructions that relate to this version?
>
>Also, as I have spent several days at this, if I get some assistance and
>get 
>ubuntu installed, can I reinstate speech after the install and get it to
>start 
>with speech enabelled?
>
>Also, if any one has got this to work, are these speech losses just 
>happening around the install or is stability an issue when performing
>tasks 
>e.t.c.
>
>Sorry for the questions but am new at this.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Keith Barrett
>
>
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