Re: reinstalls now about 15, no fix for unwanted brltty. or speech synth announcing every keypress
On Saturday, February 19, 2022 3:29:35 PM EST Brian wrote:
> On Sat 19 Feb 2022 at 11:27:37 -0800, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > this damned FF won't let me replace your name in the reply with the
> > list address, so this is yet another reply to about 20 installs of
> > bullseye now. new thread but I can't help it if using FF for web
> > mail
> > is as broken as outlook ever was.
>
> Song and dance.
>
> > The problem is that the installer insists on activating both brltty
> > and the speech synth for every key press. Or in some cases I have not
> > been able to corrolate, a mouse click is a loud ding.
>
> My recollection is that speech synthesos in the second item on its
> meneu. You get it without activating that menu? That is a big bug.
> Report it.
>
> > I did find a place in the desktop config to mute that channel of the
> > speech synth, but that does NOT stop it from logging a 6 line error
> > in
> > the syslog for every key pressed or auto repeated.
>
> That is often the way when you are in a hole.
>
> > I have spent around 5 hours looking thru every nook and cranny of the
> > bios for a way to turn brltty off, but there is NO mention other the
> > disabling the mobo's serial port and that also stops the reboot at
> > around 10 seconds, with no further action from anything but the front
> > panel rest button.
>
> You think the bios is involved? Sheesh!
>
> > There is no timeout and continue, it just stops. What is so hard to
> > understand about that? The sob stops booting and the ONLY rescue is
> > the RESET button.
>
> The technical situation is that you have buggered up something. Go back
> to GO. Do not collect 200 GBP :).
And you are doing it too, with your use of "you" above. This was,
IMNSDHO, an installer bug and I had no way to override the ID10T
installer. I spent days restarting the installer looking for a way around
it, but all I could do was remove the brltty and its lib packages after
the install, but removing them caused the boot stall on the next reboot.
The technical has sorta been solved with a liberal use of /dev/null in a
couple .conf's, but yes, AFAIAC its one hell of a big bug, I even visited
those 2 screens a couple times looking for a way to disable it, but no
biscuit, its going to install it regardless. I've raised so much hell
over it, I'm surprised no one else hasn't filed a bug report, but because
I use a computer to the limits of its abilities, its always my fault when
something totally stupid like finding a serial port means its going to
drive a braille printer for the blind. The chances of that actually being
the case is quite a ways south of point triple ought zip. But it makes me
install 15 or 20 times to finally get a working system again just because
I have a high priced Asus motherboard that actually has a 16550 style
serial port on it. Nothing connected to it as its not even on the back
panel, just a header that needs a separatly purchased adapter cable.
There's 32gigs of dram in this box, and was at the time it choked and
died, 300 some gigs of swap in two partitions. I gave a few more gigs to
/home, so swap is now 60 gigs. One whats left of a 2T raid10 for /home.
I was working in the last weekly AppImage build of OpenSCAD, with a
script that totalled 83 LOC, but an F6 press for readying it to save an
.stl for cura, had it using the 26gigs I gave it, and pushed another 14Gb
into swap. Took about 3 minutes to render. But this AppImage is about 18
months newer than the repo version, and about 100 times faster to render
than the repo version. It also took a biqu bx printer 31 hours to print
it. And if I do continue that project, probably close to 40 hours to
print the other half of that hinge because it will have a pair of wings
sticking up to hit a pair of teeny little stepper stages to tilt a 4KG
watr cooled 24,000 rpms 2 hp spindle motor up to 30 degrees. Which
enhances my ability to make use of much cheaper and more common milling
cutters.
Where do I file the bug report?
Thanks. Take care and stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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