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From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz@comcast.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Pink console issue, was Re: Fedora 4, can't access consoles?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:02:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000201c5938d$d06cf300$6801a8c0@systemax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01c59323$7dd7f2d0$6801a8c0@systemax>

Okay, this gets more and more interesting.  I googled for Fedora pink 
console and after a little digging, found a link to the following bug that 
apparently causes this as well as other video corruption related issues:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242

so after reading this, I did a few tests and I am indeed able to access the 
console; However, from a visual perspective, it is completely unreadable.
This is sort of funny in an ironic sense.  I have sighted assistance here 
and I was hoping to get help importing the yum gpg key so I could then 
installBRLTTY, a telnet server, Gnopernicus, etc.  However, now neither of 
us can see what's on the screen!  There's a fix for this issue in the above 
bug report but how I'm supposed to do this without any accessibility is 
beyond me.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

--Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz@comcast.net>
To: "Speakup List" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:21 PM
Subject: Fedora 4, can't access consoles?


Hi all,

I  just did a telnet install of Fedora 4.  Everything seemed to go well 
enough.  After the instalation, the system came up to First boot.  I got 
through first boot with sighted assistance; However, I can't access the text 
mode consoles.  If for example, I attempt to do control+alt+f1, I get a pink 
box outlining the edges of my screen and nothing else, no login prompt etc. 
When this happens, the only Thing I can do is reboot with control alt 
delete.  has anyone seen this before and if so, is there a workable 
solution?
this one's going to be fun, kind of like the chicken and the egg--  I don't 
see how I can troubleshoot this without any accessibility, but if I can't 
get to the console mode, I can't install accessibility-- grumble!

--Al
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Al Puzzuoli
 ` Al Puzzuoli [this message]
   ` Braillenote PK and Linux Guy Schlosser
     ` Beth Hatch
       ` Chris Norman
         ` Al Puzzuoli
     ` Arthur Pirika
   ` Pink console issue, was Re: Fedora 4, can't access consoles? Adam Myrow
 ` Chris Norman
 ` Janina Sajka

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