Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64
Samuel,
> On Feb 15, 2023, at 11:28 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit:
>> The first thing to note is that the image does not come up talking at all in stock configuration.
>
> What is "the stock configuration"? Does that include a framebufer
> device? If not, that's expected: speakup only works with an actual
> virtual console, which will get enabled only if there is something to
> display it.
On further testing I am not able to reproduce. It appears that a dummy 80x25 console is created. I'm not sure what was hanging me up before.
>> I'm guessing we can force some kind of video mode if we are asked to run the installer with speech?
>
> That's already what the installer image does. But it cannot magically
> create framebuffer hardware.
>
>> Later on there are other errors when it tries to download components from deb.debian.org <http://deb.debian.org/>. It says that it can't find the kernel modules.
>
> That's just because the kernel is currently getting upgraded in Debian,
> that'll sort itself out in the coming days.
Ah, okay.
>
>> It's also not detecting disks, either scsi or virtio.
>
> That's probably related to it because it'd then not have the
> corresponding drivers.
I figured.
Thanks,
--FC
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