Okay, this gets more and more interesting. I googled for Fedora pink console and after a little digging, found a link to the following bug that apparently causes this as well as other video corruption related issues: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242 so after reading this, I did a few tests and I am indeed able to access the console; However, from a visual perspective, it is completely unreadable. This is sort of funny in an ironic sense. I have sighted assistance here and I was hoping to get help importing the yum gpg key so I could then installBRLTTY, a telnet server, Gnopernicus, etc. However, now neither of us can see what's on the screen! There's a fix for this issue in the above bug report but how I'm supposed to do this without any accessibility is beyond me. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Thanks, --Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:21 PM Subject: Fedora 4, can't access consoles? Hi all, I just did a telnet install of Fedora 4. Everything seemed to go well enough. After the instalation, the system came up to First boot. I got through first boot with sighted assistance; However, I can't access the text mode consoles. If for example, I attempt to do control+alt+f1, I get a pink box outlining the edges of my screen and nothing else, no login prompt etc. When this happens, the only Thing I can do is reboot with control alt delete. has anyone seen this before and if so, is there a workable solution? this one's going to be fun, kind of like the chicken and the egg-- I don't see how I can troubleshoot this without any accessibility, but if I can't get to the console mode, I can't install accessibility-- grumble! --Al _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
