Try passing: vga=normal fb=false at the boot prompt. Greg On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 09:49:27AM -0500, acollins@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi. The Debian live cd for Jessie can run both espeak and orca at the > same time, so I suspect they've recompiled espeak to work with pulse > audio. However, when I tried an apt-get dist-upgrade, the problem > persists. I'm having problems getting the debian-installer-launcher to > run from the cd. It keeps trying to activate the framebuffer, and > hanging. An interesting catch 22. > > Gene -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup