One of RedHat's service wants to be clever and tries to probe for any kind of new hardware you might have attached to your computer. Amongst other things it probes for serial mice which has the tendency to upset BRLTTY somehow. This service is called "kudzu" (don't ask me why). To prevent kudzu from interfering, just disable it as follows once logged in as root: chkconfig kudzu off On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote: > hello, > I have just installed Redhat 7.1 on my second hard drive, with brltty and no > speech. When the boot process starts I quickly get a message saying "redhat > something". then amother message and another that go by too fast to read. > Then the message "looking for new hardware", then two dot 6's and the > letters a and t. If I type a letter on the computer keyboard, the login > message may come up. But sometimes I have to press the advance bars to find > it. The Braille display doesn't seem to be tracking the line where the > cursor is, though it does show dots 78 for the cursor. If I do something > like ls I usually have to press the same end of the same advance bar twice > to get the display to move. And it is beeping frequently. > Any help would be appreciated. I really can't do much with my new Linux > until brltty behaves consistently. > Thanks. > John > > Computers to Help People, Inc. > http://www.chpi.org > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >