Thank you for the replies. I am still fairly new to using Linux, I am a computer science major and am currently taking a C and unix class right now. I now feel comfortable enough with the basics to switch to using only a shell for access. I have played with Linux for a while, and have always preferred the console over Gnome desktop GUI for accessibility. I have almost no vision, and am currently using orca. Here is the link to the post I referred to on getting speakup running on Kali. http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/2015-May/058755.html I followed all of the instructions here, and saw no change. Speakup never came up talking at the bootup screen. I tried typing speakup into the terminal while in gnome, but it didn't recognize the command. I don't know much about the kernel yet, it is something I will learn next quarter along with other operating system concepts. Thank you for the tip on switching to console mode. I would assume that I can switch back to Gnome using the same shortcut I used to switched to console mode (ctrl+alt+ 1-6)? Can someone take a look at this post and see if you can help? Thanks, TJ Breitenfeldt On 1/27/18, Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To answer the other portion of your query, to move from a gui console > to a text console just type control-alt-f1 or any other of the > function keys from 1 to six. You can learn to kill off gnome and gdm at > a later point if you find you're happy using console mode. > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, Okash Khawaja wrote: > >> Hi Timothy, >> >> Welcome to speakup :) >> >> There is http://linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt which should help. >> Basically you need two kernel modules loaded. One is speakup.ko and >> the other depends upon which synthesizer you want to use. So for >> example for Apollo you'll need speakup_apollo.ko. You can also use >> software synth speakup_soft.ko if you don't have a hardware synth. All >> supported synths are mentioned in spkguide linked above. >> >> If it's a hardware synth then the two kernel modules is all you need. >> If it's speakup_soft.ko then some user-space text-to-speech software >> will be required. If you can explain where you're getting stuck then >> we can help more :) >> >> Cheers! >> Okash >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:36 AM, Timothy Breitenfeldt >> <timothyjb310@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, i recently installed Kali onto an old laptop. I would really like >>> to just run Kali in console mode and completely ignore the GUI .To do >>> this, I know I need speakup. I found a couple refferences in the >>> archives for this mailing list, but I couldn't get it to work with the >>> instructions given. 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