more data on screen

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  why don't you go read Debian's documentation to answer this
question?  It's well written and explains it better than I can.  Just
knowing the location of the scripts isn't enough.  To find out what I
mean, go read.

          Kenny

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:11:31AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> Where are the startup scripts located on Debian?
> Sean
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: more data on screen
> 
> 
> > Hi.  Don't know about Slackware, but you can have this problem in Debian
> > because of the console font loaded during boot.  You might want to check
> > your startup scripts and see if you are loading a font.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> >           Kenny
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:17:52PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > Well, using extended works for me while the stuff is being loaded.  I
> > > can press the numpad-period and speakup speaks "line 50 col 1 tty1"
> > > but right about the time the rc.d scripts finish up their thing, It
> > > reverts back to saying "line 25...".  That's why I think something is
> > > getting in the way later on after the boot sequence.
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:35:59PM -0800, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> > > > I tried 'vga = extended' in Slackware 9.0 with disappointing results.
> > > > Using 'vga=ask' at the 'boot' prompt should present a menu of choices
> > > > for video modes which work with your hardware, but this all happens
> > > > before any speech support is loaded.  I found by making some guesses
> > > > that modes in the range 0 through 9 or so worked with my
> > > > hardware--your system may offer different selections.  After trying
> > > > all of the modes which let the system boot (the system simply returned
> > > > to the menu when I tried an out-of-range value), I settled on mode 8,
> > > > which on my hardware provides 132X43 columns and rows.  I then put
> > > > this value in /etc/lilo.conf and ran `lilo` to make the value the
> > > > default at future boot times.  HTH, and have a _great_ day!
> > > 
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