It's very easy to get to a console login screen. Just do Ctrl+Alt+F1 But, that still doesn't answerwhether you installeda Speakup enabled kernel. Taylor, Carlos Ervin writes: > Thanks for your response Kirk. We are running debian here on a test > machine. I figured out what my problem was. The student who was > assisting me had gnome loading when the computer boots so I wasn't at a > command line prompt. Being that it is spring break, I'll just wait for > him to get back because I don't know how to exit gnome. In the mean > time, I will try to get linux set up and running on a machine I have at > home. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:15 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Just subscribed > > Hi Carlos, welcome to the list. You will have to tell us what distro > you are running and whether it is a speakup enabled distro/kernel you > are using. > > If it is then most likely at the boot prompt you would type something > like: > > linux speakup_dtlk > > Good luck. > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.