John: Are you booting into a graphical console or a text console? Do you know for sure? In addition to disabling Kudzu, you should make sure that you're booting into a text mode, and not a graphical mode. At least I don't believe brltty yet supports X! After the machine boots, you can do Alt+Control+F1 to get to a text mode login prompt. The runlevel controls which mode you get. It is set in /etc/inittab. In that file there is a line like this: id:3:initdefault: If it says :5:, you might want to edit the file to change the value to :3: PS: chkconfig is a nice little utility for managing what is and isn't launched by the boot process for any particular run level. You can get a complete printout on what the settings are by doing: chkconfig --list On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello, > I forgot to say that I am using a Braille Lite 40 with the December 30 1999 > software revision. The funny thing is that brltty worked much better when we > first got it going, then its performance seemed to degrade to the present > level. > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp