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Re: gnome-orca install failure on beta installer



To get speakup all I needed to do was hit the s key and hit enter at the 
installer disk's boot prompt.  I'll try logging in through gdm3 and see if 
I can get orca running that way. On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Jean-Philippe 
MENGUAL wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can you explain: I believed that installing desktop via tasksel
> installed gdm. So what do zou do to have speakup environment? Moreover,
> can you say if, if you can log in on gdm3, pressing Alt-F2 then running
> orca works? And finally, maybe test orca -t alone in a console.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
> 
> 
> Le samedi 11 ao?t 2012 ? 22:09 -0400, Jude DaShiell a ?crit :
> > After having done install desktop environment from tasksel, I ran orca 
> > --text-setup in the speakup environment and after setup was finished was 
> > told orca couldn't connect to the desktop because the DISPLAY variable was 
> > not set.  I don't know if debian ought to have set this variable somewhere 
> > in earlier installation process or not so this may not be a bug.  What I 
> > would like to know is what I can do about it now and get the variable set 
> > correctly.  I don't figure to go beyond vga on the video and have a radian 
> > diamond flat screen monitor along with an nvidia CK804 video card to 
> > support it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Support your local church or synagogue, worship at Bank Of America! 
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> > 
> > Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net>
> > <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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