I got Orca back! I struck out a few times along the way, but got it working with Espeak as it did before my reinstallation. I also went back to Fedora 10's version of Orca, deciding that I'd rather have the RPM package, and since Fedora 11, with its version, will be out soon anyway. Thanks again! Al _____ From: al Sten-Clanton [mailto:Albert.E.Sten_Clanton@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 1:15 PM To: 'accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: [accessiblelinux] Re: fedora 10 and orca Thanks very much for the suggestion. Orca did speak after I reinstalled the Pulseaudio stuff, but I had my old problem with that, that I can't get it to save my speech settings changes. I also installed speech-dispatcher, but the instructions I found for getting it to work with Orca apparently don't work with Fedora. I'll see if I can figure something else out. Al _____ From: accessiblelinux-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:accessiblelinux-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Storm Dragon Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 2:04 AM To: accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [accessiblelinux] Re: fedora 10 and orca Hi, This is the perfect list for this kind of question. Unfortunately, we are still a small list so you may not get a good answer. I use Ubuntu myself, so I can't really help. The only thing I can suggest that may work is leaving pulse in place and using speech-dispatcher with it. It fixes the problems with pulse and Orca in the latest Ubuntu, but may not work with Fedora. HTH Storm On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:40 -0400, al Sten-Clanton wrote: First, anybody in the know tell me if this is the wrong list for my question. My memory is that it's a list for General Linux questions, at least concerning accessibility matters. I've been using Fedora 10. I had Orca working with it before, mostly version 2.24.4 installed from source, I had to reinstall Fedora, twice, in fact, and in neither instance have I gotten Orca to work again. In all instances, I've removed the pulseaudio stuff. Anybody have a notion why the same version of Orca that worked before seems unable to work after a thorough reinstallation? (Is there other information I should get for dealing with this?) Thanks to whoever can help, or who can direct me to the right list for this question. (I suspect it's more a Fedora question than an Orca one, but of course am unsure of that.) Al