Hey There, I know that I broached this subject in the recent past, but I needsmust have another go at it, if I may be briefly indulged. My boot-log somehow switched over to my external hard-drive without my permission and/or knowledge. Since I was unaware of the recalcitrant and self-willed miscreant's defection, I wasn't even aware of the problem, much less how to go about solving it without extensive troubleshooting. I mean, of course I was aware of a problem; my machine wouldn't boot up. I'm just playing bloody hell figuring out why and what to do about it. For the first time ever, I find that Orca refuses to read most of the screens in alpine or several other commandline utilities. They have heretofore performed this function for me without any trouble what-so-ever. I absolutely can not get orca to allow me total freedom in pine or alpine, and I can not figure out how to remedy this matter. I thought that perhaps firing up a console by means of "orca+ctrl+space" would allow me to make some sort of palliative adjustments; nothing doing. This is because I can not figure out how to load speech-dispatcher and get it talking. When ever I load a console, orca goes on vacation, AWOL as you might say. I am then bereft of speech output. I can log into the console readily enough, but I'm dead in the water afterwards. I would be most sincerely thankful for any help I might be able to obtain here. I would be most especially grateful to once more be capable of operating in terminal mode as apposed to in a console, if possible. I am most dreadfully sorry to address the same issue twice in such a short time, but I really haven't any choice in the matter. Please bear with me, kind reader, and perhaps I'll not be faced with this most odious of necessities in the near future at least. cheerio, Riv My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list