https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-accessibility-improvements/ "To activate the speech assisted installer, press “S” at boot time, and hit enter." On 1/17/16, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I bought a new open architecture computer and kalilinux was installed on > it and orca was set up and enabled. Unfortunately a talking login prompt > was not enabled. I was told to wait a minute when starting the system and > then to type in credentials I was provided. There were two solidstate > disks sent with the system one inside the machine and another in a holder > in a box that came with the package both of which had kalilinux installed > on them. I have proved the machine is not defective since I put > talkingarch on one of those two drives but to date have not figured out > how to get kalilinux talking. I know when installing kalilinux before it > did not mind installing and working on a system without a monitor. For > now I don't have the right connector for the monitor I do have so until > this situation is temporarily remedied by tech support somewhere along the > way, no sighted person can look at the monitor and tell me what's going > wrong. I would like to know what key combination to hit to disable the > screen saver temporarily long enough for me to log into the system. This > is a really fast machine with much in the way of resources and I > experienced things with sata drives where those had to be kept unlocked > until the dvd started spinning when I wanted to install something on those > sata drives and then quickly locked the drive so the installation could > proceed. It may be things are happening faster than anticipated by > developers who don't always have the state of the art hardware. > There are brailled commands I have for gnome to permanently disable screen > savers but you have to be logged in to issue them. > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, there's likely more fertilizer there Jackie McBride Author of the Upcoming Book “Beyond Baffled: the Technophobe’s Guide to Creating a Website” www.brighter-vision.com Where Visionaries & Technology Unite Jaws Scripting training www.screenreaderscripting.com _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list