Hi, I don't know if anything broke down with the steps you took, but according to my very limited experience the message about screen not in text mode comes up usually if brltty was not running already at the time orca starts up. HTH Matthys -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Odd Martin Baanrud Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 10:22 PM To: debian-accessibility@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Orca on Debian Hello, I post a copy to the Blinux list, since we are at least 2 persons with the same problem. This is what I did the last time I tried to get Orca working: I installed the Etch release with BRLTTY, using the net installer. When Tasksell asked me what to install, I selected "desktop" and "standard". After the installation, Debian started, and after a while I got "Screen not in text mode" on my braille display. Then I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get into a text console, and loged in as root. (At this time, the braille display is working.) Then I changed the APT source from Etch to Lenny, and ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. When the system was upgraded, I edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst to pass the "brltty=" argument to the newly installed kernel. Then I installed gnome-orca with "apt-get install gnome-orca", and rebooted. When I was sure that X was running, I typed my username and pressed enter, then my password and pressed Enter. I heared the harddrive spinning for a little while. After it stopped, I pressed Alt+F2, and tried both "orca" and "orca --setup". I got no respons. To make sure I was in the Gnome terminal, I typed "touch test". When I loged into a text console with my braille display working, I saw that file. So now, I'm lost. What should I do to get Orca running? Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list