See if hitting enter starts espeakup before logging in. That's what happens on debian bookworm now and since you didn't mention your operating system I'm shooting in the dark. As root did you run sysctl enable espeakup yet? If not, you want to do that. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, > > > I decided to switch to multi-user.target with systemctl. But one problem I am > getting is that before logging in, I do not get speech from espeakup. So I had > to resort to using the graphical.target. Then after logged in, I can then > switch to a tty window and Espeakup will speak only because I am logged in in > graphical.target. > > > Any help on where I can set Espeakup to start even before log in, so that I > can switch to multi-user.target without problem? I am on Arch Linux, but I am > sure any system using systemd can work just the same. > > > TIA, > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list