Re: Bug#1002976: installation-reports: Installer Fault Accessibility No Screen Reader Heard
On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 07:56:46AM -0500, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 03:59 Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 2. Januar 2022 02:40:16 MEZ schrieb "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net
> > >:
> > >
> > >lspci -knn: 00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U
> > Audio Controller [8086:160c] (rev 09)
> >
> >
> > As I already wrote:
> > my best guess for this one would be
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata
> >
> >
> > Holger
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
> >
>
> Holger,
>
> So is this fixed? Does the daily our weekly installer with firmware allow
> speech to be heard during installation?
>
> Thank you,
> David
>
> >
Hi David,
No: it's one of the annoyances at the moment that there are three areas
where firmware is increasingly required - and they vary from machine to machine.
It has got to the stage where the stock installer - without firmware - is,
effectively, unusable to install over WiFi with most chipsets, for example.
Various video chipsets now require firmware from the outset: some of them
may, exceptionally, drop back to a VESA-compliant mode so that you could
do a text mode install - but will give you a black screen thereafter.
We have the situation - which may be yours - where some Intel chipsets now
require dedicated firmware for sound to work.
All rather frustrating: there is talk of a GR [General Resolution] on
firmware to be put to the Debian developers once the current round of
voting is over because the position that we've held for many years on
firmware and non-freeness is now actively detrimental to the success
of Debian installs.
Other distributions may vary: Ubuntu has a different outlook and more liberal
policy and Fedora - which is equally concerned with software freedom -
has a very clear policy set out here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Binary_Firmware
Hope this helps, all the very best, as ever.
Andy Cater
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