ubuntu 2012.04 issues

[Peter Vágner]

Hello,
This is Acer ao bw150 netbook. It has 1 GB of ram and an onboard intel 
based graphic chip.
It can even run unity-3d so I really don't knowwhether relly hardware is 
the issue.

Should I post free output or something else to help narrowing it?

Besides ubuntu I usually run Windows XP on this machine.

Greetings

Peter


On 2.4.2012 13:36, Andy B.  wrote:
> The first thing, what are the specs on this netbook? I have been installing
> daily builds ever since Feburary, and had never came across this problem.
> The only one I have at this point is the loss of shortcuts from the gnome
> settings center. Sounds like your video card, or memory issues might be
> causing the problem. I installed the 03/27 build and never had those
> problems.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Peter
> Vágner
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:17 AM
> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: ubuntu 2012.04 issues
>
> Hello,
> Several days ago I've installed ubuntu 2012.04 to my usb drive for testing.
> I will go throught some issues I'm having. If you like you can take this as
> a small review. I'm sorry I won't go to much detail while talking about
> stuff which already works verry well. That's the nature of many people.
> People start talking when they need help or when they dislike something.
> I must say I like the upcoming release of ubuntu because I can already see a
> lot of progress. For example I can use thunderbird with many more messages
> in a single folder than I was able to previously. Thunderbird startup takes
> a bit longer as discussed earlier on this and on the orca-list but it's
> verry usable.
> The same goes about the menus. Many people argue that gnome 2 with its main
> menu structure is better accessible. Maybe access to the aplication icons is
> better with classic gnome hower I find access to the items such as batery
> indicator, network indicator, chat / messaging indicator, volume indicator
> and others more accessible with unity-2d than it used to be with classic
> gnome. It's now perfectly integrated into the menu.
> The only thing I am unable to do with unity-2d is that I am unable to see
> the list of all installed applications. I can see applications on the
> launcher I can also press the super key alone and do a search but I can't
> browse for an app. I am sure this can be done somehow.
>
> I'm quite impressed how it works but here are some issues and inconstencies
> I have came accross and would like to get your feetback on.
> - My netbook is a bit old and doesn't have a lot of power. It's still able
> to run ubuntu and be usable. At times when doing some inthensive operations
> e.g. loading a huge webpage in Firefox or updating parts of the page
> dynamically the system is getting a bit sluggish. I know this is fine
> however sometimes I don't know whether it's still doing its job or it has
> frozen. Perhaps I'm just paranoid and would like to get the progress each
> time it is doing something. In such case when the system is bussy and I'll
> press some key bindings most frequently orcas flat review commands the orcas
> ability to react to keypresses breaks. For example I can navigate around the
> desktop using the keyboard but I am unable to press ctrl key to pause the
> speech. I need to wait when the voice is done speaking and then do the other
> action because interupting speech no longer works while doing key presses.
> The cure to this is restarting orca. I can navigate to the orca main window,
> find the quit button and press it using a spacebar. Orca then quits andI am
> able to start it again by pressing alt+f2 and typing orca followed by the
> enter key press. When Orca is restarted its ability to react to keypresses
> is back to normal.
> When orca is back to normal I am usually getting a crash reporter saying
> that ubuntu had an internal problem. I've been able to use standard
> navigation features to dismiss the crash reporter. It then opened launchpad
> with new bug form. Sometimes it's the bug about unity I've also seen a bug
> related to dbus once. At this point Firefox is working well however I am
> afraid orca doesn't use the proper scripts because I can't navigate thepage
> using quick navigation commands and also I am unable to use cursor keysfor
> reading. Similar bugs have already been filled so I was not able to properly
> read bug descriptions and comments in this state and I did not reportedthe
> issue at the bugtracker.
> Another thing I can notice in such a state is that when pressing alt+tab I
> am getting no speech output.
> While trying to log out or restart the computers using the menu I land on
> the desktop, press alt+f10 to bring up the menu and while arrowing in the
> menu I can see it is no longer speaking as I am moving over the menu items.
> The only way to get back to normal where alt+tab and menus work is to go to
> the terminal and restart the pc using the shutdown command.
> This is happenning for me quite frequently. I would be pleased if you might
> be able to look into this or possible give me some hints on how to proceed
> to diagnose it further.
> I would be gratefull for possible workarounds as well.e.g. how to prevent
> orca loosing its ability to react to keypresses or how to recover from this
> without restarting the whole machine.
>
> - On a different note I've read some exciting emails on this and also on the
> orca-list recently. Ubuntu 2012.04 is supposed to have ability to launch
> orca and get speech output on the login screen. While I was installing daily
> live from 22nd of march, I've chosen to log me in automatically during the
> install. So now while my PC is booting I am logged in automatically. After
> I'm done testing and I'll remain satisfied I would like to install to the
> hdd and add multiple users so other familly members can login as well.
> I've tried to test this by going to the devices menu and activating theitem
> saying logout. I've got a confirmation dialog where I've presset logout
> button. After this I've waited a bit and while I did not get any audible
> output I've tried pressing ctrl+s . Again I've got no audible output. Then
> I've tried tabbing around slowly pressing ctrl+s after each tab key press
> hoping I'll manage to get accessible login screen but I have never
> succeeded. I had to reboot the machine in order to get to log back in.
>
> - Now the development really progresses in huge steps so I'm updating my
> installed copy quite frequently sometimes even twice a day because
> occassionally apport has problems subbmitting crashes when I'm running old
> versions of some packages. Can I expect getting the great features appearing
> in the latest daily images after updating using either the update manager or
> apt-get in the console?
> I am asking because login screen access, ability to use HUD and possible
> other fixes were only been introduced recently and I don't seem to be able
> to test them on my installed system.
>
> - The last issue which bugs me this time is how do I check whether a bugfix
> is going to be released or not. By reading some interesting discussionson
> empathy in the orca-list I think Joanie has fixed string mapping so empathy
> should behave properly with orca and also empathy developers fixed a crash
> preventing display of empathy preferences window when orca is running. Can I
> see info about release status somewhere in the bugtracker or do I just need
> to ask relevant contributors to push the updates into ubuntu or how does it
> work please?
>
> Thanks verry much if you are reading this last paragraph, I know this is a
> long email. Thanks to everyone making progress, I'm really excited, I've
> even contacted our local gnome translators in order to try translating orca
> and related packages to slovak.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
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