Mac auto correct again, god I hate this feature, was talking about UEFI
> On 30 Dec 2021, at 18:21, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jordan,
>
> Your post makes very little sense to me. I don't know what "refi system"
> means. Also unless my memory is incorrect, Debian comes up with a screen
> reader and tells you what to do to install it. If it doesn't it should, but
> I believe that has already been done.
>
> Earlier I had made comments about Debian 10.1 release but I'm bad about
> numbers, it should have been the Debian 11.1 release, the latest version
> available, I'm still having problems installing it. I can install it even
> though I have no speech - it doesn't detect my sound card correctly, but when
> I reboot I have sound.
>
> But unfortunately, I cannot boot into MATE graphical user without using the
> root account.
>
> I can revert to the latest version of Debian 10 and then just change the
> /etc/apt/sources.list file to change to the latest Debian and everything
> does work fine, but for some reason the Debian 11.1 installer won't let me
> run MATE as a user nor will it give me screen reader during installation.
>
> I understand this is because of my hardware and most likely a non-free
> firmware bug and not a common problem for other users. I've never ever had
> trouble installing Debian except when Debian 11.0 was released, it's
> previously always worked without fault, but since 11.0 I still have failure
> of sound card detection, lack of screen reader during installation and after
> installation inability to use GUI without running "startx" as root which I
> really do not want to do. My work around is to install the last Debian 10 and
> then change the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> Best wishes,
> David
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:56 PM Jordan Livesey <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Another thing, about the installer, even if you don’t know how to get speech
> on, this is for anyone new, they can just press the down arrow 5 times on the
> boot menu on an refi system, plus on supported systems, like my old Lenovo,
> you hear 2 beeps, I believe the current project leader is also visually
> impaired, if I could, I could back port orca41 since I’ve had no trouble
> using it
