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Bug#355851: a blindunfriendly debian installer problem



Hi,

Joey Hess, le Mon 27 Mar 2006 15:50:36 -0500, a écrit :
> As far as I can see, brltty-udeb unconditionally starts up brltty on
> debian-installer startup.

Well, maybe this could be fixed somehow. Mario, maybe we could rather
use hotplug rules for only starting brltty when

- either hotplug discovered braille USB devices,
- or the user added brltty= parameter on the command line.

> As noted in #359062, it won't work if the framebuffer display and
> bterm are being used.

This can be fixed quite easily with very minor modification of bterm.

> I wonder what the effect of startg in brltty is on systems that don't
> have a braille display? Does the daemon remain running,

It does indeed.

> Also, the patch still adds brltty to a lot of images that are special
> purpose and/or limited size, including netboot-apus, cdrom-minimal,
> netboot-minimal, cdrom-apus and generic (s390).

It should be kept at least on cdrom-minimal and netboot-minimal. 138KB
is not _that_ much on such devices, compared to the precious help it
will be for blind people to install Debian.

Regards,
Samuel



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