This may sound stupid, but if you remove gnome or at least put it in the console-level runlevel, would that resolve the video problem? On both my linux systems, the video modules aren't even installed and I still get readable output. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Does Fedora install telnet server after a telnet based install? > Hello, > > Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I was able to bring up a Gnome > terminal window and from there, install BRLTTY. The console windows > themselves are still hosed and visually unreadable, but so long as I can > access them I guess I don't really care, lol. This problem apparently isn't > specific to my install, but is a bug that is occuring on systems with > certain video hardware. I posted a link to the bug in my other thread > regarding the "Pink console" message. Hopefully, the problem will just go > away in a future update. > > --Al > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup