Hello from here, <grin> I DID IT!
It turns out braille does start from the beginning but the problem is you can't see it. In order to stop hiding and deleting the boot messages I had to make two changes. Note that I've never bothered to make Orca work so have no idea what I may be missing, but for a console-based system like mine the following works: 1. The instructions in the file pointed to in a previous message are correct, but note that the default console is really console 1 (see the tty(1) command) which is Ctrl+Alt+F1. However, I won't need to use that keystroke in the following. 2. In menu.lst I removed all instances (about 3) of the word "splash". This prevents display of the splash screen which is what gives the "Screen not in text mode" message. The screen comes up in text mode, but once Gnome starts it goes into graphics mode anyway and thus throws away all boot messages before the current screen. 3. Since Ubuntu boots into runlevel 2, I went to /etc/rc2.d. There's a README file in that directory, and following instructions given there I renamed the link that starts gdm. On my system, at least, this link was named S30gdm, so I renamed it to K70gdm. I rebooted. Result: I'm on console 1 (tty1), the first console, and I can see the last 25 lines of boot messages. To see prior messages I hold down Shift+PageUp to eventually get back all the way to the beginning of the boot messages. Presumably, to start Orca you'd do: /etc/init.d/gdm start but this is untested. Your mileage may vary... HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
