You may need to run telinit to change the run level on the system. On Slackware, the normal multi-user run level is 3, so the following will put my system in standard multi-user mode: telinit 3 See 'man telinit' for more info. HTH, and have a _great_ weekend (and everyone stay cool, somehow). On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:41:28PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: > Hello list, > I haev a problem, > I got someone to compile the kernel for me. I installed the .deb package, and it modified grub, I can boot to it, but I always see that its going into single user mode... > Any idea why its doing this? > I need to get it going, so I can install espeak... My hardware synthasizer broke, and I can't use doubletalk... > Thanks, > ~~TheCreator~~ > website: > http://tysplace.shaned.net > msn: > compgeek134 at hotmail.com > aim: > st8amnd2005 > skype: > st8amnd127 > moo coder/wizard and administrator > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! TAN (x) = SIN (x) / COS (x)