Various Orca and festival questions

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak charter net>]

Orca is now running. Actually, I think I may have gnopernicus  
functional also now too. However, I have some problems and questions.

1. Can I set up either gnopernicus or orca to start at gdm login  
instead of having to do alt-f2 and type the name? I'm leaning toward  
orca as I've gotten further than that than with gnopernicus. Braille  
is working.
2. When I run orca --setup, my only speech choices seem to be for  
dectalk which I don't have. Festival works from command line on my  
system so why doesn't orca see it?
3. Debian starts speech dispatcher automatically at boot. Should this  
be off and if so how do I keep it from starting at bootup?
4. I tried to install the sun java sdk and jre. Both hang forever  
while trying to create deploy.jar. Any idea what to do about this? I  
am using the self-extracting binary. I see there's some kind of bug  
in debian when using the java-package but didn't find anything about  
the problem when not using this and just trying to install the .bin  
files.

5. I also have a problem with gnome-speech. I do have a version of  
gnome-speech installed though I'm not sure which one is actually  
installed; I also have debian's libgnome-speech. However, when I  
tried to install a newer version of gnome-speech )tried 0.3.10 and  
0.4.0) they both hang forever right after checking for javac and  
saying yes to that. Any idea what would cause this?


--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".