Package: debian-installer Version: 20060304 Severity: important Hi,
The Debian installer now uses bterm for better i18n. However, brltty (the daemon that permits visually impaired people to access debian) isn't able to fetch what bterm displays, and hence visually impaired people can't use the Debian installer. Of course, some solution is to add debian-installer/framebuffer=false at the syslinux prompt for disabling framebuffer and hence bterm too. But since syslinux is not accessible either, this is really not a handy solution. More generally, brltty currently can't read frame buffer terminals (bterm, jfbterm, zhcon, ...). The long-run solution will probably be based on brlapi or at-spi which are respectively client-server- and corba- based solutions. But these solutions will most probably not make up for Etch release. And anyway, they are a bit heavy, and will probably not be suited to an installer. A simple solution could be that bterm mmaps some file in /dev for reflecting its screen, and brltty's linux screen driver would be patched for reading it. The code on both side can be very simple: instead of calloc()ing on the bterm side, mmap() a zero-filled /dev file. And on the brltty side, some "1:/dev/bterm" parameter would tell brltty that for tty1, it should read /dev/bterm instead of /dev/vcsa1. Yes, this is a quite hand-made solution, but for an installer it should be fine: a more generic solution isn't needed here, and brlapi/AtSpi should be able to provide it for normal debian systems. Any thoughts? Regards, Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
