Hi Glenn, thank you so much, this is great!!! I'm gonna test it in a few hours when I get home, and as there's nothing on the Eee at the moment, I'll do the full installation and report what happened immediately. Thank you very much, I really appreciate that!!! Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Saberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robin Kipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:41 AM Subject: Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Brltty and the custom installer for the Eee
> Robin Kipp wrote: >> Hello list, >> A few months ago, I got an Asus Eee 900. This laptop comes pre-installed >> with Windows XP, which I really didn't want on there... :-) So, I wanted >> to install Debian Linux on it and was pleased to see that there's a >> version of Debian especially made for the Eee... I looked around on the >> wiki page and saw that there's actually no brltty (Braille terminal) >> included in the installer, which would allow me to use my Braille >> display that I'd have to use because I am completely blind. I tried the >> standard installer along with the installation / configuration stepps >> described on the wiki page, but I find this approach to be all but >> optimal, plus it doesn't recognise a whole lot of stuff. So I wanted to >> ask, is it possible for you developers to include brltty in the custom >> installer? Right now, the whole community of blind Eee users (which is >> quite big) can't use Linux, because no distribution that works with the >> Eee offers an accessible installation method. Couldn't Debian make a >> difference? >> Robin >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > > Hi Robin, > Without looking too far into it, I have made an image that includes > brltty-udeb. If you can give it a test run and report back how it goes, > we can go from there. No need to do a full install, just going through > the first menu or two will be sufficient to see if it works. As long as > you don't run the partitioner then nothing will get written to disk, so > you can play with any of the menus up to that point. If it fails to > work, I'll have to look a bit deeper into how brltty integrates into the > cd images. If you can help with testing in this regard until we get it > right, that would be great. Image can be found at > http://eeepc.debian.net/debian/images/brltty/debian-eeepc.img > > Cheers > > Glenn _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
