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Bug#355851: a blindunfriendly debian installer problem



Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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,

We use udev now, if there is a way for udev to discover braille devices
that would be an excellent way to go.

> - 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.

Ok, this patch shouldn't be applied while that's true.

> > 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.

I've just removed cdrom-minimal and netboot-mimimal from the tree; no
image uses those lists anymore.

-- 
see shy jo

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