Re: installing with the debian installer and selecting pam profiles and gdm3 not able to login using the keyboard

["Nick Gawronski" <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, I ran at the boot screen debconf/priority=low speakup.synth=dectlk with 
no beep prompt so no clue as to when to type in the values for the first few 
times I was wondering if speech was even included in the installer why don't 
these mini.iso images beep or can't they be made to beep?  The lenny ones do 
still beep once the base system was installed I went to console two chrooted 
into /target and ran dpkg-reconfigure debconf and selected low configuration 
questions.  Then exitted from the chroot, went back to the installation 
screen and that is when I got that pam selection screen.  Why is the debconf 
priority for the installation not carried over to the target system?    Once 
the pam selection screen comes up I did try the numbers with spaces like the 
other numberd screens allow but no matter what I tried the installer still 
would not let me continue so had to abort the installation using control and 
alt and delete as control c just left me at a blank screen.  Nick Gawronski
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Thibault" <sthibault@debian.org>
To: "Nick Gawronski" <nick@nickgawronski.com>
Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: installing with the debian installer and selecting pam profiles 
and gdm3 not able to login using the keyboard


> Hello,
>
> Nick Gawronski, le Wed 06 Oct 2010 09:57:40 -0600, a écrit :
> > Hi, I am using the latest testing gtk mini iso image and was installing 
> > testing
> > and chose to install X as well as the standard system.  When the pam 
> > profiles
> > were selected
>
> Err, I didn't reach such question, so can't work on the bug you're
> facing.  AIUI, you chose the low level for debconf questions, but then
> answered the default answers, except probably partitioning, and in
> tasksel, you selected the graphical desktop and standard system, i.e. 1
> and 10, right?
>
> > and any keys I press on the keyboard I don't get to a login screen and I
> > can't login and start speech.
>
> Note that gdm3 first permits to choose a login instead of typing it. To
> type a login, you need to first press the end key, then enter, and then
> type your login, enter, password, enter.
>
> > If possible could there be an option in the configuration of gdm3
> > to enable orca upon login so users could use speech to login to the
> > system
>
> There is one, it's just quite complex:
>
> sudo -u Debian-gdm gconftool --type bool --set 
> /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled true
>
> I'm checking with upstream about adding a shortcut to trigger the gnome
> accessibility panel.
>
> Samuel