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Re: [BlinDIA] new feedback grml-blindia 0.2.1 (tested on GRML 0.7 CD)

Aldo
Sun, 28 May 2006 01:54:12 -0700

Hi William,

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:06:25PM +0200, William Windels wrote:
> about grml 0.7: 
> You had no problems with braillesupport after booting grml 0.7?

No any; I just noticed that the GRML Live CD is now running brltty v. 
3.7.2, but it's fixing itself due to the fact that we installed a Stable 
Debian, so the retrieved brltty is 3.4.1; 

idem for the locales message during installation: it shows an error 
& falls back to the "C" locale/lang, but if you correctly choosed another 
locale during the base-config, it is correctly loading the one you 
choosed.

> The bootparameters are still the same:
> grml "brltty=al,,text.de.tbl " or grml "brltty=al,ttyS0,text.de.tbl"?

I did exactly like this: 
grml vga=normal keyboard=be-latin1 brltty=al,ttyS0,de.tbl 'enter'
(no longer kilometric params are needed for brltty, only usb: instead of 
ttySX if you're running an USB braille-display;
I see that you bypassed the ttyS part, and now USB is default, not 
serial dispalys).

> If so, then I have to try again...

Try again with entering params as I specified.
 
> about scriptversion 0.2.1:
> It works very nice.

Yes it is!

> The fstab is created correctly on my system
> exept this line:
> /dev/cdrom       /media/cdrom    iso9660 noauto,ro,user,exec      0    0

Why shouldn't it be correct? When you look at your /dev directory, you 
see a symlink called /dev/cdrom, here correctly pointing to hdc; and 
another symlink called cdrom1 pointing to hdd, or I suppose to your 
second drive; but in fstab only the first device is added, this is 
the same when you install from the official d-i.
You may add a symlink dvd or dvdrw in /dev pointing to hdYY (your 
second CD device), and provide then the line in your fstab with the type 
auto, not iso...
 
> I have 2: 1 writer and 1 cdrom
> writer =/dev/hdd and cdrom = /dev/hdb
> But, of course I can copy this line and change /dev/cdrom in wathever I
> want :)

Chek if the links are made; if so, just add a line to your fstab.
Or, modify the symlinks but be care that you don't forget to change them 
all correctly. IMHO I should only add a line refering to the symlink in 
/dev, this may probably change the device order, but it will be safe.
 
> some questions , remarks:
> - is it possible to add a module in the script to configure the
>       sound-system?
>       Normally, I do this by instaling alsautils and I run alsaconf.
Well, Debian Sarge installs by default OSS; I prefer it in a certain 
way; but why not providing us with some WW hack I can publish, just as I 
should be able to provide an olr hack with multimedia?

Maybe we wait until Philip is back to discuss this with him.

Now the script is stable, variations of it are becoming possible. But 
our goal was/is to provide the base, as we agreed when we met us a few 
weeks ago.
Philip will maybe not oppose to publishing some hacks, just as there 
exist some developer's hacks of Links2 and eLinks.

> -     It would be nice to give a few thing in the script to install a
>       testing (etch) system in stead of a stable...

I think it will be easier to do that since the original HowTo was 
pointing to Etch mirrors. But let's wait for Philip's options.
        
>       For example: 
>       - url for bootstrap, kernelversion, versin of udev.
> Becaus with a stable version, it's very difficult to upgrade kernel and
> udev at the same time.
> Becaus of , a particular version of udev needs a kernelversion > 2.6.x.
> So, it's not easy to do this at the same time.
> That's why I am asking for this.
> 
> This are my remakrs,
> best regards,

William, can you cut the attach from reply when it is not a new feedback 
output: this is to reduce the amount of the post. Thanx.

Aldo.


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