Hi, In answer to Georgina's question, the console508.p perl 5 script does not depend on emacspeak but having emacspeak running is an advantage. Start emacspeak first and press ALT x fo[r command. Type shell and press enter. Then start the Perl script by typing "perl console508.p" and pressing enter. There is one drawback to running my script from within emacspeak. Emacspeak prevents colors from actually being changed. The color choices will however be saved. But to actually change background and foreground colors, you must run the script outside emacspeak. I need to make a correction both to the readme and to the install script setup.scr. SVGATextMode is a binary not an rpm file. So the line in the setup.scr file that reads rpm -i SVGAText*.rpm should instead read cp SVGATextMode* /usr/sbin/. The period here is part of the command. Michael R. Cross LTS - Linux Information Development Mike Cross/Austin/IBM (mrcross@us.ibm.com) 512-838-0087 / tl 678-0087