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Re: [BlinDIA] first litle test with the mini-iso cd

William Windels
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:04:40 -0700

Hello Aldo and the others,

Ok, Aldo.
I will wait untel the etch-version of this script is comming out.

Perhaps another suggestion:

Where you have the file on the cd with all teh shortcuts foor the
braille-devices , it will be a good idea I think to add a comment line
above each alias to say in wordts which braille-display will start ,
with the specific port and braille-table.

What do you tink about this?

best regards,
William

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:28:43AM +0200, Aldo wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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