Orca on the live CD of September 29

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at shellworld.net
Sun Sep 30 22:08:09 BST 2007


You first have to set orca up to work.  After you next log in, control-f2 
and type sudo gnome-terminal <cr>.  If you get asked for password key it 
in.  Then type orca -t <cr>.  This is what to type to set orca up.



On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Simon Bienlein wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> When I start the live CD of September 29, I am able to call the "run
> dialogue" via Alt+F2. When orca is entered here, there is no screen
> output. Is there anyone on this list whose Orca actually works on the
> live CD?
>
> BrlTTY does not cause any problems. The Braille display is being
> recognized and I am able to smoothly work with it on the console
> (Strg+Alt+F1). When I want to configure orca in the text modus and enter
> "orca -t", I receive a couple of error messages, but the set-up is not
> being started:
>
> $ orca -t
> /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72:
> GtkWarning: could not open display
>  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 56, in
> <module>
>    import httpserver
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/httpserver.py", line 36,
> in <module>
>    import speech
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 35, in
> <module>
>    import keynames
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/keynames.py", line 29, in
> <module>
>    import chnames
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py", line 116
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py on line 116, but no
> encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
> details
>
> Thanks in advance for your hints.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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