Aldo
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:28:43 -0700
Hi William and all, On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:18:24AM +0200, William Windels wrote: > Hello all, > > I have done a little test with the release of yesterday. > > Just 2 marks about booting[6~ with the option william: > > I have done 4 tests but nothing works: > first: I typed william (in azerty-style and after reboot and beeps in > querty-style). > This has no result on my vaio. > > second: I have done the same tests but on the other usb-port of my laptop. > Also with no result. > > Perhaps strange but when the cd was stopped making noise, I was able to open > the cdrom-drive while the computer was not rebooted. > > When I was trying the cdrom on my desktop with the aldo-option for my alva > 480, it works fine. > > What about the problem with the william-option?
There is no problem with it; the problem is a general USB support problem due to the fact that the Sarge installer doesn't use the udev (this will be standard under the Etch). So can I ask you to enter at the beeeeps the correct params for your USB device, and fwd us an output of echo $brltty Or, as far as you know, can you confirm if the USB cheatcodes as specified in the william conf or other choices in the isolinux.cfg (cf. CD) are correct? (it is supposed to be the USB old style code, but that causes problems if you already have a device on your usb:0) > A little suggestion for the future: > Perhaps it could be nice to add also vim-editor instead of only nano. That's part of my idea to provide add.list-NNN files to complete the installation with some extra's; we should open a wiki for it and authorize BlinDIA users worlwide to create/publish personalized add.list files. The grml/knoppix-inst_plain_deb script will then be able to check if such an add.list is available in the same path, and will then use it to install all the packages contained in that list. > I know nano is much more user friendly then vim but also much more limited >in functionality. Our goals was to limit the installation to basics, since anybody can use apt or aptitude later to add thousands of packages; but the idea of add.lists can resolve this problem, people may choose for it but if they don't the script will then install the base as Debian Sarge provide itself. I think we discussed already about it when we met in May. > If I can help about debugging the problems with the william-option, let >me know. If you or someone using an USB display can tell us what to do for providing the correct code, then it will be nice to fix this problem; but we know that that problem fixes itself with the Etch and udev method (our script is for a stable/Sarge installation). Aldo. _______________________________________________ BlinDIA Project Mailing List BlinDIA@lists.ael.be http://lists.ael.be/mailman/listinfo/blindia Archive : http://lists.ael.be/pipermail/blindia or http://www.mail-archive.com/blindia%40lists.ael.be Home Page : http://brlspeak.net/blindia.php