Ok. So this morning in reading Pranav's site. I thought what the whatever. I
was going to try to install orca on my pi 3.
Not a mistake exactly. The post did say pranav installed it on the pi 4. So I
should have took that seriously.
In any case. I followed all directions. Except not having a secondary sound
card. But I learned much from reading the article on how to deal with multiple
sound cards.
So anyway that was neat.
In any case.
Everything went fine LOL. I ignored the VNC stuff. Because I don't have a vnc
client etc.
I know the GUI enough on how to start it. So I started it. Low and behold
braille display came up. I could navigate mate with the braille display!!!!
Wow awesome.
But no sound. In fact, it wiped out my entire sound setup. Or I thought it did.
I fiddled with some stuff and got sound back in the command line. But I was
stubborn so I tried again.
This time I went into orca's settings and tried to get speech working that way.
Still no go sigh.
And guess what? My sound totally messed up again! I was like really? Seriously?!
So I said ok. Enough of this.
The system was not ruined. But I figured I am not big on GUI anyway. I just
wanted to try. Bralle display came up. But no speech. So in this case maybe
another sound card would do the trick. I don't know though.
In any case. If I try again. I will not load it on my raspbian clean install. I
will just create a new raspbian lite SD card for testing purposes. Lesson
learned.
So after backing up my info I needed to back up. Which thankfully wasn't much.
I got my mini pc out. Wiped all sd cards. Put f123lite from stormux on one of
them. And put raspbiian lite on the other.
This time I paid attention to what I was doing.
I dd'd the images to the respective sd cards. Then I put the raspbian card into
my pi.
Er after copying my wpa_supplicant.conf file and touching a ssh file to the
first sd card partition that is.
Plugged the pi in and waited a min or so.
Then I logged into the pi via SSH.
Once logged in. I made a root password. Disabled the pi password and created my
own user account. This was via recommendation from a website I was reading.
Anyway. Got that all set up. Then I went into raspi-config and changed things
in there that I needed to change.
Then I installed some packages via apt-get mainly espeakup and brltty.
I did amixer set PCM 100 on to make sure I had max sound.
I shutdown the mini pc. And well after I shutdown the pi.
And once I put the mini pc away I plugged the pi back in. And woohoo speech and
braille came up.
It was as simple as that. And I was back in my beloved command line.
Then I ediited my .ebrc file to be able to access two of my accounts via imap
as well as pop so I could clean the gmail accounts out easily.
Then I read and responded to as many of your emails as I could and felt needed
responses. And all this while trying to figure out why it was not downloading
all the mail from my lists gmail account. That I wanted it too.
Finally figured out I was changing the pop settings logged into the wrong gmail
account on my phone. Once corrected. Everything worked fine. Yay!!!
I will use stormux when I need to use the GUI for now. Er f123lite. Sigh. GRRR.
Just because apparently I am not going to get orca working on this pi 3b+ right
now.
So that is about it. I still have four other email accounts to fix how I want
them.
But after that I am definitely calling it a day. Er. I am not even going to do
those tonight. Going to read a bit. And head to bed I think.
Thanks for being patient with me through this exploratory time. And sharing
with me your stories too. I really did enjoy reading them. Amidst all my
challennges.
Anyway. For the person having trouble installing orca on your pi. Your not
alone. Maybe you could try with a sound card or maybe get a pi4. I don't know.
I am not too worried about it for myself right now.
Blessings to all of you,
Jessica
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