Hi, I'm the kbd-chooser maintainer for the new Debian Installer. I'm working on bug #239385, which appears to have problems with kbd-chooser and console-tools due to speakup not being installed; from looking at the code it appears that for the speakup keymaps to work, you need a speakup-patched kernel; is this the case?
In which case, why are the speakup patches not in the mainline Debian kernels (just a question; don't want to provoke a flamewar). d-i uses a default kernel for each architecture; it may then install onto the system an optimised kernel for that particular machine. So, it appears: (1) For speakup to work in the installer, we need to use a kerne-image-*-speakup image. (Other than the speakup patches, how does this differ from the normal i386 images?) (2) If the kernel is not speakup-patched, how do we detect this in kbd-chooser (the system map will not be shipped in d-i)? Does it make more sense just to not offer speakup in kbd-chooser, or ship a speakup-variant of d-i with speakup kernel and keymap? Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
