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Andor Demarteau | 2 Jan 2004 22:11
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brltty for debian, test results

teh following is a transcript of a test I ran this evening.
using:
- brltty 3.4
- debian woddy disks rescue.bin and root.bin vanilla (jsut the 1.44
images)
- instrunctions ffom the corresponding readme from the brltty-tarball
This is a three-floppy setup, using a third diskt o host a tarball
including the brltty-stuff.
It's loaded just before the (u)dbootstrap program starts (in theory).
If anyone knows of another way, I'm listening.
Menawhile if I can find an easy way to do this I will put converted
startup-stuff for woody for all supported displays on my webpage.

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I've just tested the document-info I found in the brltty 3.4 distribution
in the file bootdisks/README.Debian

One of the changes (I think to the innittab file) gives me the creaps.
I get loads of errors on the screen and the install process hangs.

I'm not sure which of the two does this,The errormessage go by a bit too
fast so even a sighted assistance can't easily read them.

I'm using the full-distro 1.44 rescue and root.bin, stable woody most
recent release (May 2003)

I'm now testing with the one change to the null:: to tty:: line.
I will keep the second one pointing to udbootstrap

I've not modified the rcS script
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Nath | 3 Jan 2004 00:14
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Problem starting brltty on Debian testing

Hi all,

Yesterday I installed a new fresh Debian testing system but encountered
a problem to make BRLTTY starting properly : in fact BRLTTY starts but
indicates "No braille support". the installation + configuration run
successfully : I choose Handytech for the braille display, the ttyS0
port and the french text table. I tried to make a dpkg-reconfigure
brltty in order to see if it solved the problem but not better after
that.
So, has someone ever encountered this kind of problem ?
Another question : in order to have BRLTTY properly started where can I
find the configured parameters saved by debconf ? If I find the file
containing these parameters I will be able to see if they were properly
defined and perhaps i will be able to adjust them according to my
braille display and preferences if debconf has made mistakes ?
Thx in advance if you can indicate where are these parameters,

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Andor Demarteau | 3 Jan 2004 20:38
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debin startup disks with brltty 3.3.1 for unstable

hi guys,
well thsoe seem to work nicely.
I personally like the change in interface to a readline-style.

Is it possible to load the access-image.img fromthe prompt of a booting
cdrom?
If so, taht would be helpfull as the darned floopy-install even including
the net_driver-stuff doesn't hold my network-driver (3c905 fro 3com),
darned cause that's a quite common card IMHO

I'd still be interested in brltyy-enabled woody-disks as I would really
like to install stable.

Any quick response would be appriciated.

best regards and ahppy new year to all,
Andor

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Mario Lang | 4 Jan 2004 12:43
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Re: Problem starting brltty on Debian testing

All the display related settings are saved in the file /etc/brltty.conf.

Nath <nath.ml <at> free.fr> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday I installed a new fresh Debian testing system but encountered
> a problem to make BRLTTY starting properly : in fact BRLTTY starts but
> indicates "No braille support". the installation + configuration run
> successfully : I choose Handytech for the braille display, the ttyS0
> port and the french text table. I tried to make a dpkg-reconfigure
> brltty in order to see if it solved the problem but not better after
> that.
> So, has someone ever encountered this kind of problem ?
> Another question : in order to have BRLTTY properly started where can I
> find the configured parameters saved by debconf ? If I find the file
> containing these parameters I will be able to see if they were properly
> defined and perhaps i will be able to adjust them according to my
> braille display and preferences if debconf has made mistakes ?
> Thx in advance if you can indicate where are these parameters,
>
> -- 
> Nath

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Nath | 4 Jan 2004 15:49
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Re: Problem starting brltty on Debian testing

OK, thx alot ! so I will open this file and see its contents. I will let
you know what I will find in it ...

Mario Lang <mlang <at> debian.org> writes:

> All the display related settings are saved in the file /etc/brltty.conf.
>
> Nath <nath.ml <at> free.fr> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yesterday I installed a new fresh Debian testing system but encountered
>> a problem to make BRLTTY starting properly : in fact BRLTTY starts but
>> indicates "No braille support". the installation + configuration run
>> successfully : I choose Handytech for the braille display, the ttyS0
>> port and the french text table. I tried to make a dpkg-reconfigure
>> brltty in order to see if it solved the problem but not better after
>> that.
>> So, has someone ever encountered this kind of problem ?
>> Another question : in order to have BRLTTY properly started where can I
>> find the configured parameters saved by debconf ? If I find the file
>> containing these parameters I will be able to see if they were properly
>> defined and perhaps i will be able to adjust them according to my
>> braille display and preferences if debconf has made mistakes ?
>> Thx in advance if you can indicate where are these parameters,
>>
>> -- 
>> Nath
>
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Mario Lang | 5 Jan 2004 11:54
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Re: debin startup disks with brltty 3.3.1 for unstable

Andor Demarteau <andor <at> nl.linux.org> writes:

> well thsoe seem to work nicely.
This is good to hear!

> I personally like the change in interface to a readline-style.

The readline-style interface is the so-called
cdebconf-text module.  It was originally only written for
testing purposes, but I figured it makes more sense for
braille/speech based review software to use
a that, instead of a dialog/newt/slang driven interface.

> Is it possible to load the access-image.img fromthe prompt of a booting
> cdrom?

Not that I know of.  OTOH, now that the framebuffer
problems were addressed in Debian Installer, it is maybe
time to add brltty back into the cdrom package list.
My main problem in this area is that I do not own a
CD-burner, and therefore have quite a hard time testing
CD-based installers.

> If so, taht would be helpfull as the darned floopy-install even including
> the net_driver-stuff doesn't hold my network-driver (3c905 fro 3com),
> darned cause that's a quite common card IMHO
This is strange.  I vaguely remember I also used
a 3c905 (vortex).

> I'd still be interested in brltyy-enabled woody-disks as I would really
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Andor Demarteau | 5 Jan 2004 15:32
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Re: debin startup disks with brltty 3.3.1 for unstable

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Mario Lang wrote:
> > I'd still be interested in brltyy-enabled woody-disks as I would really
> > like to install stable.
> As you have already discovered, a method for
> creating your own Woody-based floppies is documented.
documented yes, but not working. As you may have read, I've posted a long
test-list from different settings which all do not work unforunately.

> > Any quick response would be appriciated.
>
> Time is money.
>
>

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Nath | 10 Jan 2004 00:23
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Re: Problem starting brltty on Debian testing

so I have uncommented the three lines in the /etc/brltty.conf in order
to have the good braille display, port and text table and after I run
the /etc/init.d/brltty start command. It works fine now.
But I confirm : after doing an apt-get install brltty in Debian testing
and have responded to all the debconf questions the corrects lines
corresponding to the selected options are not uncommented by debconf. i
tested with an Handytech BrailleTop connected on /dev/ttyS0 and
text.fr-cbifs.tbl thext table. My BRLTTY version is 3.3.1-7 (testing).

Best regards,

Nath <nath.ml <at> free.fr> writes:

> OK, thx alot ! so I will open this file and see its contents. I will let
> you know what I will find in it ...
>
>
> Mario Lang <mlang <at> debian.org> writes:
>
>> All the display related settings are saved in the file /etc/brltty.conf.
>>
>> Nath <nath.ml <at> free.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday I installed a new fresh Debian testing system but encountered
>>> a problem to make BRLTTY starting properly : in fact BRLTTY starts but
>>> indicates "No braille support". the installation + configuration run
>>> successfully : I choose Handytech for the braille display, the ttyS0
>>> port and the french text table. I tried to make a dpkg-reconfigure
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rx | 12 Jan 2004 14:40

Re: best way to install Debian

i really don't know how to help you in this kind of instalation, but may
be you can ask in the debian accessibility list.

i forward this msg to the list (debian-accessibility <at> lists.debian.org)
to find a good answer for you.

un*rx
a fecha de 11 de ene de 2004, a las 09:10:44 -0500, Lorenzo Prince dijo ...
> I have a system that I would like to install Debian on.  I don't have a 
>  serial cable and the version with speakup is very, very old.  The only 
> Woody version I could find with Speakup is on floppy disks, and I don't 
> have a floppy drive on this system I tried bootstrapping it using an 
> Oralux CD, but I want to upgrade to unstable, which gave me nothing but 
> trouble.  Now, every time I run Apt-get I get millions of errors about 
> libc6 not being configured and I can't install libc6 because it says it 
> isn't completely installed.  I don't know what to .  What is the best 
> way to do this given the above circumstances?
> 
> PRINCE

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Nath | 18 Jan 2004 03:10
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Is yasr properly working on Debian testing ?

Hi all,

This message to ask you if Yasr works properly for you on Debian testing
? My yasr version is 0.6.4-1 and I want to use DECtalk software with
it. so, I modified the /etc/yasr/yasr.conf file has follow :

...
synthesizer=emacspeak server
...
synthesizer port=|/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/dtk-soft
...

But wwhen I type yasr and enter on the commandline, yasr is starting but
no sound from DECtalk ! No errors appear so what appends ? The "ps"
command shows me that yasr is running. where to go to try to solve the
problem ? does it exist a log file ?
Thx in advance for your help,

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