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Re: issues with the debian installer



Jason White, le Tue 16 Mar 2010 17:51:41 +1100, a écrit :
> Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger@vol.at> wrote:
> > After starting the computer, pressing tab and typing in brltty=ht,,de 
> > and hitting enter brltty was coming up and showing me the message 
> > "screen not in text mode".
> > 
> > Is that normal that it does that now? Or is this something which 
> > shouldn't happen?
> 
> It shouldn't happen. I reported it over a year ago and it is my understanding
> that it was fixed then.

The fix is still pending: this was a race between brltty starting and
writing its pid, and the installer starting the frame buffer. Retrying a
couple of time may let brltty win the race sometimes.

Samuel


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