[macvoiceover] Re: Voiceover saying busy all the time
- From: Bryan Smart <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:52:29 -0400
It would be interesting to have more details about the systems where this is
happening. Perhaps the people that are experiencing the problem could use that
system profiler tool in the apps folder to post info about their systems. I
think it is called System Info. Not sure if it can save output, but don't
imagine that it couldn't.
Probably, they don't have a monitor connected, are running at a strange display
resolution, or some other factor is being overlooked. It can't be a coincidence
that those reporting the problems (that I've seen, at least), are using Minis,
which lack a lot of common hardware found on other Macs. For example, if you
have a MacBook or IMac, you always have a monitor, and I think that the OS
automatically selects the native resolution for the display when you install.
On a Mini, even if you connect a monitor at some point, it wasn't connected
during the install of the OS, so perhaps some setting that is normally only
automatically set at install time has been missed.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ignasi Cambra
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:34 AM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Voiceover saying busy all the time
I insist, this cannot possibly have to do with RAM. I use a mini with 1gb of
ram and a 2.0ghz core2 duo and it really does work well. I've used it for
youtube and all kinds of things. Maybe we should give Apple the serial numbers
for computers where VO works well and computers where it doesn't. I really
don't know what it can be, but it doesn't seem as though it has to do with RAM,
at least not for me...
On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> VoiceOver says that a program is "busy" basically when that program is
> doing a lot of work and it isn't responding to VoiceOver's requests
> for info about what it is displaying.
>
> Put another technical way, the program is frozen/not responding. On
> Windows, this would be like when a program is doing lots of work, or
> becomes stuck, and the screen reader can't read anything from the
> window because of this. VoiceOver doesn't seem to get stuck like many
> of the Windows screen readers when applications freeze, but, when the
> applications freeze, it blocks VoiceOver from reading anything in
> their windows.
>
> This happens to me a lot in Safari, particularly when on sites like
> Hulu that show video content. When the flash player on the page is
> running, it seems to bog down Safari/make it respond slowly, VoiceOver
> responds slowly, and I hear "Safari busy".
>
> I have a MacBook Pro (2.5Ghz dual core and 4GB of RAM), so I don't
> know how much more computer you're supposed to throw at it to make it
> run smoothly. Maybe flash player is just a terribly written plug- in,
> and no amount of CPU power and memory will help.
>
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amanda
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:55 PM
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Voiceover saying busy all the time
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed Snowleopard on my new Mac. I've noticed that over
> the last day or so, Voiceover has been saying "busy" quite a lot,
> particularly when opening Safari and Itunes. Is there anything I can
> do about this?
>
> Amanda
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