Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Le mer 18 aoû 2004 à 16:19:07 +0200, Andor Demarteau a tapoté sur son clavier : On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: How high can you go with modern serial ports? I've seen choices as high as 115000 bits or something. yes, modern serial device can go up to that speed. I just

Re: Gnopernicus and Screen Reading Philosophy (Was: Getting 320x200 in X ...)

2004-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Le lun 23 aoû 2004 à 09:56:33 -0500, Kenny Hitt a tapoté sur son clavier : Mplayer isn't an official Debian package, so I build it from source. There are packages at deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main also available at deb ftp://debian.ens-cachan.fr/debian-marillat

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sorry for replying so late, I was on holidays :) Le mar 24 aoû 2004 à 17:50:00 +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila a tapoté sur son clavier : tricky. Cause alt arrow left/right is already used to switch next/prev vt. Well it could be some other key as well. THe only thing you'd have to do is to

Re: Help needed: People willing to help co-maintain debian accessibility packages

2005-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Milan Zamazal, le Mon 07 Nov 2005 09:27:11 +0100, a écrit : ST == Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ST Although I don't have any hardware synthesizer, I might help for ST packaging speakup and the debian installer. Hi Samuel, did you consider helping with the brltty

Re: Information about speakup kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sauro Cesaretti, le Tue 22 Nov 2005 18:30:32 +0100, a écrit : when I restarted the installation after the first stage, I found these parameters added at the grub entry. Agreed, but IIRC, after the first stage, brltty doesn't use these parameters any more but only uses those from

Re: Information about speakup kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mmm, just to make sure: during the first stage, you correctly get braille, don't you? Sauro Cesaretti, le Tue 22 Nov 2005 19:21:00 +0100, a écrit : Must I install this package manually? In principle, no. Regards, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: BRITTY for Debian

2006-02-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petra Ritter, le Thu 02 Feb 2006 09:44:23 +0100, a écrit : Is there a binary packet from BRITTY for Bebian Sarge or have I to compile myself? There is: the packet is simply called brltty :) The package is quite old (3.4.1) however. Mario is preparing a 3.7.2 version, but I don't know when it

Re: Installer for the blind and DVD

2006-02-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Petra Ritter, le Thu 02 Feb 2006 13:53:51 +0100, a écrit : Does cd-drivers.img work with DVDs, too? Or works it only with CD ROMs? It should work with DVDs too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unofficial brltty 3.7.2 Debian package

2006-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi Mario Lang, le Sat 18 Feb 2006 16:47:37 +0100, a écrit : Additionally, I think we need to rename libbrlapi, to libbrlapi1 (and the -dev package accordingly) to avoid unnecessary breakage upon upload since the ABI/API changed. Actually, this should rather be libbrlapi0.5 (the soname is

Re: Sarge netwwork installation, BRLTTY and Caiku Albatross Braille Display

2006-03-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Harri Tuominen, le Tue 14 Mar 2006 03:38:47 +0200, a écrit : Does someone know if there are accessible images somewhere, CD or floppies, with BRLTTY 3.5 or later? I have built a non-official etch mini-netinstall CD with Mario's 3.7.2 brltty and framebuffer disabled. It is available on

Re: Sarge netwwork installation with BRLTTY

2006-03-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petra Ritter, le Mon 27 Mar 2006 08:26:18 +0200, a écrit : Have I to do the partitioning and formating of the Harddisk befor I can instaal Debian with this CD or are some Tools to du this job included in the install-program? Like it is in the official installation. The CD only contains

Re: Non-official mini-netinstall CD

2006-04-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Petra Ritter, le Wed 19 Apr 2006 05:52:15 +0200, a écrit : Can I use this mini-netinstall CD to install 'Sarge' or work it only for the version Etch? The installer doesn't permit to choose the installed distribution indeed. But I built a Sarge image on

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
tags 355851 + patch thanks Geert Stappers, le Sat 13 May 2006 13:08:31 +0200, a écrit : On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 12:14:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Frans Pop, le Sat 13 May 2006 09:30:07 +0200, a écrit : On Saturday 13 May 2006 08:33, Samuel Thibault wrote: Grmbl. Now

Re: Installer for the blind forr Sarge

2006-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petra Ritter, le Mon 15 May 2006 18:03:49 +0200, a écrit : am Sonntag, 14. Mai 2006 um 11:28 schrieben Sie: At last, I can answer to this: official debian installation images now include brltty. For now, only daily builds include it starting from today. You can download a mini iso

Re: Installer for speech only users

2006-05-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petra Ritter, le Tue 16 May 2006 08:52:23 +0200, a écrit : is there an installer for speech only users, too? There are access floppies. I don't know any official documentation about them (maybe Mario can tell us), there is some on http://brl.thefreecat.org/wiki/moin.cgi/debian Samuel -- To

Re: Installer for the blind forr Sarge

2006-05-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Wed 24 May 2006 11:44:44 +0200, a écrit : Hi Samuel, At last, I can answer to this: official debian installation images now include brltty. For now, only daily builds include it starting from today. I downloaded the current version of the business card CD:

brltty 3.7.2 in testing!

2006-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, At last the X/gnome dependencies let brltty 3.7.2 enter testing. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i: Bad archive mirror

2006-06-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Simon Bienlein, le Wed 07 Jun 2006 23:04:23 +0200, a écrit : After choosing a debian mirror, I always receive the following error message: Choose a mirror of the Debian archive Bad archive mirror http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today Should be fixed in next upload of glibc. In the

Re: Bug#373118: d-i: BRLTTY is not installed

2006-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Joey Hess, le Wed 14 Jun 2006 12:06:03 -0400, a écrit : at the syslinux prompt: brltty correctly gets started during installation, but the prebaseconfig script didn't get started (or failed somehow maybe), and as a result brltty didn't get installed. I don't suppose you have a log

Re: Bug#373118: d-i: BRLTTY is not installed

2006-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 15 Jun 2006 00:42:59 +0200, a écrit : Joey Hess, le Wed 14 Jun 2006 12:06:03 -0400, a écrit : at the syslinux prompt: brltty correctly gets started during installation, but the prebaseconfig script didn't get started (or failed somehow maybe), and as a result

Re: d-i: BRLTTY is not installed

2006-06-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Thu 15 Jun 2006 15:00:24 +0200, a écrit : Is there a way to be notified when a bug is removed Yes, you just need to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (whatever the subject or content). In this case, the bug was not what I thought, and got corrected in debian installer

Re: Access-keys in Debian pages

2006-06-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Jens Seidel, le Wed 28 Jun 2006 19:39:39 +0200, a écrit : On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:55:50PM +0200, Jutta Wrage wrote: Including the access-keys from IBM-rocommendation seems not to be the right way. One of the blind people (who noted out that the pages now are much better than one

Re: Debian Installer etch beta 3 released

2006-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Frans Pop, le Fri 11 Aug 2006 17:03:50 +0200, a écrit : The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the third beta release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch. * The installer now has brltty support in regular images for i386, amd64 and powerpc which improves

Re: debian-installer and braille table selection

2006-09-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Simon Bienlein, le Fri 08 Sep 2006 11:49:24 +0200, a écrit : I downloaded the image and successfully tested it with the Braille star of the Handy Tech company. Great :D Is this upgrade already accessible in the daily built images and will it be included in the official installer? Mario

Re: Gnopernicus and Debian

2006-10-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petra Ritter, le Sun 08 Oct 2006 09:38:34 +0200, a écrit : What is the status of the Gnopernicus packet for Debian? I can't find it anywhere. I have searched for it in 'stable', 'unstable and in testing. Has it been removed from the packet lists? It's available in all three: $ apt-cache

Re: Etch Beta 3: BRLTTY not installed

2006-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Mon 21 Aug 2006 18:46:34 +0200, a écrit : At the reboot after the installation BRLTTY was not started. This problem should have been fixed by the upload of brltty 3.7.2-4 Starting from around 11th October, debian-installer images should hence not have the issue any more.

Debian Installer - Call for testing *this week*

2006-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
.html#preseed-partman-raid - End forwarded message - -- Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] N sl - display animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter Nsl instead of ls. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Etch Beta 3: BRLTTY not installed

2006-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Wed 18 Oct 2006 11:05:23 +0200, a écrit : After the restart I logged in as root in blind flight because brltty did not start. The command brltty was inexistent as well. At the command aptitude install brltty I received the following error message: E:

Re: Etch Beta 3: BRLTTY not installed

2006-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Wed 18 Oct 2006 11:05:23 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: Simon Bienlein, le Mon 21 Aug 2006 18:46:34 +0200, a �crit : At the reboot after the installation BRLTTY was not started. This problem should have been fixed by the upload of brltty 3.7.2-4 Starting

Re: debian instlaler disk, howto add brltty

2006-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Andor Demarteau, le Tue 14 Nov 2006 10:29:23 +0100, a écrit : I'm modifying a recent weekly build to get brltty on it for installation/rescue usage. Why? Brltty is already in there. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian instlaler disk, howto add brltty

2006-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Andor Demarteau, le Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:56:38 +0100, a écrit : On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Andor Demarteau, le Tue 14 Nov 2006 10:29:23 +0100, a écrit : I'm modifying a recent weekly build to get brltty on it for installation/rescue usage. Why

Re: Etch rc1: BRLTTY is not installed

2006-11-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Tue 21 Nov 2006 12:28:44 +0100, a écrit : Nov 18 21:31:02 apt-install: Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert: Nov 18 21:31:02 apt-install: brltty One more question (which doesn't replace the previous ones, for which I'd still like an answer): was this a net or

Re: brlapi

2006-11-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Sat 25 Nov 2006 08:03:51 +1000, a écrit : NOTE: This script was unable to find libbrlapi.so, which is needed for braille device support. Ah, that's a good error message. Do you have libbrlapi.so.0.5 or libbrlapi.so? (as provided by the libbrlapi1 and

Re: brlapi

2006-11-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Mon 27 Nov 2006 18:37:14 +1000, a écrit : You don't happen to know the public key for http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia? gpg --search rdonald (1) Randall Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Randall Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Randall Donald [EMAIL

Re: Etch Beta 3: BRLTTY not installed

2006-12-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sebastian Dellit, le Thu 14 Dec 2006 19:11:41 +0100, a écrit : Hoppa Samuel and all readers, on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 7:08:29 PM means Samuel Thibault: Sebastian Dellit, le Thu 14 Dec 2006 10:22:46 +0100, a écrit : Now, I install the vario 40 on ttyUSB0 with a serial2usb

Re: Etch Beta 3: BRLTTY not installed

2006-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sebastian Dellit, le Fri 15 Dec 2006 09:05:56 +0100, a écrit : on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 6:55:52 AM means Samuel Thibault: Sebastian Dellit, le Thu 14 Dec 2006 19:11:41 +0100, a écrit : on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 7:08:29 PM means Samuel Thibault: Sebastian Dellit, le Thu

Re: BRLTTY doesn't work with USB to serial cable.

2006-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sebastian Dellit, le Thu 14 Dec 2006 10:22:46 +0100, a écrit : When I restart the computer, brltty didn't start my braille terminal. Ok, now I understand the issue. In brltty.conf, you have specified braille-device usb:USB0# Specific USB device by serial number. This is not

Re: BRLTTY doesn't work with USB to serial cable.

2006-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Fri 15 Dec 2006 20:57:51 +0100, a écrit : I try it again with braille-device /dev/ttyUSB0 in the /etc/brltty.conf. But, when I restart the computer or when I start brltty /etc/init.d/brltty restart the braille don't work. I type brltty -v and the message means,

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty deb update give still a eternal still unresolved problem

2006-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aldo, le Mon 18 Dec 2006 09:40:30 +0100, a écrit : Well, after having updated I heard the beep sound of a starting brltty, but it still forget to kill the older one: Debian doesn't start a new brltty if it already started one. - can't it be a good idea to prevent from starting a new brltty

Re: [BRLTTY] Re: Write of brltty.pid on read-konly file systems at boot

2006-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Mon 18 Dec 2006 15:55:19 +0100, a écrit : One other alternative would be the /lib/init/rw directory that is a ram backed directory on Debian systems. I guess we could use this for our brltty.pid as well... That should be fine for Debian, yes. Note however that making the

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty deb update give still a eternal still unresolved problem

2006-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Mario Lang, le Tue 19 Dec 2006 13:29:25 +0100, a écrit : Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Mario Lang wrote: The one thing I can think of is that you probably once started brltty not with the init.d script but directly. If you just run

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty deb update give still a eternal still unresolved problem

2006-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Tue 19 Dec 2006 23:11:37 +0100, a écrit : Besides, having brltty= in menu.lst is definitely misleading and confuses users. Yes. Do you know where we need to patch to get this kopt arg filtered? Yes, I've submitted a bug report + working patch to debian-installer-utils. Samuel

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty deb update give still a eternal still unresolved problem

2006-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 19 Dec 2006 23:33:41 +0100, a écrit : Do you know where we need to patch to get this kopt arg filtered? Yes, I've submitted a bug report + working patch to debian-installer-utils. 403820, namely. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: BRLTTY doesn't work with USB to serial cable.

2006-12-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Samuel Thibault, le Mon 18 Dec 2006 14:28:04 +0100, a écrit : Sebastian Dellit, le Mon 18 Dec 2006 14:13:53 +0100, a écrit : Hoppa Sebastian and all readers, on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 2:09:10 PM means Sebastian Dellit: on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 11:21:07 AM means Samuel

Re: Orca Was: Re: BRLTTY finish install script works incorrectly

2007-01-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Thu 25 Jan 2007 02:10:56 +0100, a écrit : Simon Bienlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW: will there be a debian-package for the screenreader Orca as well? I've sponsored a gnome-orca upload a couple of days ago, not sure about the status of it right now, maybe its awaiting

Re: Debian-Installer with BRLTTY (USB) test report

2007-02-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Mon 12 Feb 2007 12:06:22 +0100, a écrit : The shortcut for the preference menu is correct. Can one find this information in the online documentation for BRLTTY as well? If so, one could refer to this before using BRLTTY. It would be great if one could find the help

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Frans Pop, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 04:10:31 +0100, a écrit : During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works for Sun on Accessibility and Speech. Willie is the lead man behind ORCA [1], which

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Jason White, le Fri 16 Feb 2007 13:32:23 +1100, a écrit : On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:14:04AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: However, we understand that the speakup patches have never been properly ported to current 2.6 kernels and that there were security issues with the speakup patches.

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Jason White, le Fri 16 Feb 2007 20:50:39 +1100, a écrit : On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:59:15AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: About the upstream support, speakup works with 2.6. But I've looked at the source code, and safety/security issues are clearly still there. Have these issues

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Mario Lang, le Fri 16 Feb 2007 14:23:31 +0100, a écrit : Willy, are you still willing to help the speakup project to do the final cleaning up so that mainline submission could happen? I wouldn't say final: the way speakup access serial ports is to be completely rethought. The current way

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, John Heim, le Fri 16 Feb 2007 12:04:56 -0600, a écrit : On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:32:49AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: Yes, but in text mode, you do not need Orca, there are existing soltuions. Orca, as I understand it, is a screen reader for graphical environments only. So the question

Re: gnome-orca in unstable

2007-04-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Mario Lang, le Fri 27 Apr 2007 13:56:41 +0200, a écrit : Does anyone know what exactly needs to be done to get openoffice.org to work? AIUI, we'd need the java-access-bridge from GNOME. I managed to get OOo working. We don't need java-access-bridge, please read:

Re: swift and brltty

2007-06-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Thu 28 Jun 2007 08:38:22 +0200, a écrit : can brltty work with the swift engine? The debian package is not compiled for this (because Swift is not packaged in Debian), but if you installed the Swift headers and recompile brltty from sources, it should work. Samuel -- To

Re: brltty with viavoice and swift

2007-07-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Sat 07 Jul 2007 21:38:18 +0200, a écrit : I try to make a .deb with viavoice and swift. 1. apt-get source brltty 2. change in the brltty directory 3. ./configure --with-swift=/usr/share/swift --with-viavoice=/opt/IBM/ibmtts/ make[2]: yacc: Kommando nicht gefunden

Re: brltty with viavoice and swift

2007-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Sun 08 Jul 2007 11:11:24 +0200, a écrit : Thanks for this info. But the following wwill be shown: # apt-get build-dep brltty [...] Reading state information... Done E: Build-dependencies for brltty could not be satisfied. What happens? The message says it: there are

Re: brltty with viavoice and swift

2007-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Sun 08 Jul 2007 16:48:28 +0200, a écrit : Hoppa Samuel and all readers, on Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 4:47:54 PM means Samuel Thibault: Sebastian Dellit, le Sun 08 Jul 2007 16:34:12 +0200, a écrit : ../../../BrailleDrivers/XWindow/braille.c:1109:2: error: #error Toolkit

Re: brltty with viavoice and swift

2007-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Sun 08 Jul 2007 19:05:39 +0200, a écrit : Hoppa Samuel and all readers, on Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 7:00:39 PM means Samuel Thibault: Mmm, there's something I don't understand: according that config.log, the XWindow driver shouldn't event be compiled. Now

Re: brltty with viavoice and swift

2007-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Sun 08 Jul 2007 19:27:59 +0200, a écrit : Mmm, and you really have /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h? No, # find / -name xlib xlib is different from Xlib (the X has an upper case) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: brltty with viavoice and swift

2007-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dellit, le Sun 08 Jul 2007 19:56:23 +0200, a écrit : Hoppa Samuel and all readers, on Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 7:54:17 PM means Samuel Thibault: # find / -name xlib xlib is different from Xlib (the X has an upper case) All right. Sorry for confusion. The file exists in /usr

Re: brltty with viavoice and swift

2007-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sebastian Dellit, le Sun 08 Jul 2007 20:21:24 +0200, a écrit : # ./configure --with-swift=/opt/swift # dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Ah, no, you can't modify the behavior of dpkg-buildpackage by just running ./configure before it. What you should do instead is to modify debian/rules for

Re: Text Prediction/Completion

2007-07-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam J. Hogan, le Thu 12 Jul 2007 23:01:22 -0500, a écrit : Does anyone know of any text prediction/completion options? I'm looking specifically for an onscreen keyboard that can support the feature but I'd love to see something similar to Co:Writer. dasher. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: soft braille terminal?

2007-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Access to computers for blind people through braille terminals ? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orca on Debian

2007-12-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andor Demarteau, le Fri 14 Dec 2007 09:41:22 +0100, a écrit : - brltty is installed and brlapi in brltty is enabled (as I compile it myself I'm not sure about the debian package) And it is running I guess? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Video Streams from Fosdem

2008-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jason White, le Sun 24 Feb 2008 10:49:53 +1100, a écrit : On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 05:14:29PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Just to mention that I will give a talk `How accessible is Debian?' tomorrow between 15:30 and 16:00 GMT+01, and it happens that live streams will be available

Re: Video Streams from Fosdem

2008-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 23 Feb 2008 17:14:29 +0100, a écrit : Just to mention that I will give a talk `How accessible is Debian?' tomorrow between 15:30 and 16:00 GMT+01, Ok, I should have asked for 3/4h or even an hour to really cover all the slides I had prepared, and brltty's XWindow driver

Re: Video Streams from Fosdem

2008-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 24 Feb 2008 23:06:07 +0100, a écrit : Mario Lang, le Sun 24 Feb 2008 17:57:19 +0100, a écrit : I didn't look at your slides yet, but I didnt hear anything about accerciser in your talk. Yes, I didn't have the time to mention it orally, (Actually I even had prepared

Re: Video Streams from Fosdem

2008-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le Sat 23 Feb 2008 17:14:29 +0100, a écrit : Just to mention that I will give a talk `How accessible is Debian?' tomorrow between 15:30 and 16:00 GMT+01, and it happens that live streams will be available There are recordings of it on http://meetings-archive.debian.net

Re: Video Streams from Fosdem

2008-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Fri 07 Mar 2008 00:15:04 +, a écrit : Samuel Thibault, le Sat 23 Feb 2008 17:14:29 +0100, a écrit : Just to mention that I will give a talk `How accessible is Debian?' tomorrow between 15:30 and 16:00 GMT+01, and it happens that live streams will be available

Re: Using a PC keyboard as braille keyboard

2008-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Sat 08 Mar 2008 13:19:34 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On http://coscell.molerat.net/ Coscell maintains the brlkey package, which uses the Linux input layer to grab keys asdfjkl; and use them as a braille keyboard. I was wondering whether it'd

a11y tag in bug tracking system?

2008-03-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, On my FOSDEM slides, I mentioned the idea of adding an a11y tag to bugs, just like there is already an l10n tag. That would probably help tracking bugs like #380612 (colorblind support in crack-attack), and maybe they could be automatically forwarded to the debian-accessibility list to

Re: a11y tag in bug tracking system?

2008-03-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Mon 17 Mar 2008 09:19:29 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my FOSDEM slides, I mentioned the idea of adding an a11y tag to bugs, just like there is already an l10n tag. That would probably help tracking bugs like #380612 (colorblind support

Re: Debian Installer Lenny Beta1, with fixed URL

2008-03-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just to forward the announcement for the debian installer, and make a call for testing: could you please check that brltty works as appropriate in that release? (e.g. USB autodetection) Otavio Salvador, le Mon 17 Mar 2008 21:14:36 -0300, a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

kernel 2.6.24 speakup

2008-03-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I was wondering: since one of the goals of d-i for Lenny is to have a 2.6.24 kernel, and that it happens that that kernel has enough hooks for speakup to be compiled as a module, would it be ok to include speakup in the standard images, as a module which would be auto-loaded through a

tasksel-data: Add an Accessibility task

2008-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: tasksel-data Severity: normal Hello, It has been suggested that tasksel could have an accessibility tasks, which would automatically install e.g. the gnome-orca package and other accessibility-related packages. That task could be automatically selected when installation detects a

Re: tasksel-data: Add an Accessibility task

2008-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sébastien Hinderer, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 13:07:11 +0100, a écrit : That task could be automatically selected when installation detects a braille device for instance, How can the installation system be aware of the presence of a braille display, concretely ? A script gets called either by

Re: kernel 2.6.24 speakup

2008-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 18:46:34 +0100, a écrit : On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Mario Lang wrote: The module will first need to be included in the regular Debian kernel image packages of course. Ah, can't it be a separate package? Isn't linux-modules-extra-2.6 where all the

Re: kernel 2.6.24 speakup

2008-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, maximilian attems, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 19:31:03 +0100, a écrit : On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:06:58PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Mario Lang, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 17:28:32 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED

apt-cache: Filtering by tags for accessibility

2008-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: apt Version: 0.7.11 Severity: wishlist Hello, The tags of packages would allow blind people to easily filter out the packages which are definitely not accessible (because of technical reasons). However, I couldn't find a way to do that in the manual page, is it not implemented or does

Re: kernel 2.6.24 speakup

2008-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
maximilian attems, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 20:13:30 +0100, a écrit : On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:50:01PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 18:39:54 +, a écrit : Apply patches/kernel-integration-2.6.24-source.patch to the main kernel source to GPL-export 4

Re: kernel 2.6.24 speakup

2008-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
maximilian attems, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 23:27:14 +0100, a écrit : On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:43:47PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: maximilian attems, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 20:13:30 +0100, a écrit : once it is in next in next? next is the linux tree of things that are ready

Re: kernel 2.6.24 speakup

2008-03-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, maximilian attems, le Wed 26 Mar 2008 14:58:57 +0100, a écrit : On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ah, so since Lenny's d-i is supposed to use 2.6.24, speakup won't make it into it :/ as otavio said we gonna release with 2.6.24 for debian 2.6.24 stuff would have to go

Re: brltty: A 3.10dev snapshot for Lenny?

2008-04-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Tue 01 Apr 2008 21:24:21 +0200, a écrit : What about the API, are we to expect any breakage due to the changes in 3.10dev so far? There hasn't been much development actually, we've been quite busy with the Unicode stuff :) It got simplified actually, thanks to the unicode

Re: brltty: A 3.10dev snapshot for Lenny?

2008-04-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Tue 01 Apr 2008 22:43:13 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mario Lang, le Tue 01 Apr 2008 21:24:21 +0200, a écrit : What about the API, are we to expect any breakage due to the changes in 3.10dev so far? There hasn't been much development actually

Re: latest brltty in experimental?

2008-04-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Tue 22 Apr 2008 09:41:22 +1000, a écrit : On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:20:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: Does anyone have any remaining problems with the latest version of brltty in experimental? We've been able to get some problems fixed, and since upstream

Re: latest brltty in experimental?

2008-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Tue 22 Apr 2008 18:30:49 +1000, a écrit : On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:19:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Tue 22 Apr 2008 09:41:22 +1000, a écrit : On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:20:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: Does anyone

qemu with braille and curses

2008-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just to advertise that the current testing version of qemu (actually, starting from 0.9.1-4) has an ncurses interface as well as virtual braille support. That means you can dd /dev/zero img bs=1M count=1 seek=2000 qemu -cdrom debian-install.iso -hda img -curses -k fr That will boot

Re: Lynx and Unicode

2008-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Fri 02 May 2008 12:52:57 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mario Lang, le Fri 02 May 2008 11:55:30 +0200, a écrit : Samuel: Did you already submit your unicode braille tables to Debian? They are in the console-data package, yes. Nice, I see

Re: Lynx and Unicode

2008-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Fri 02 May 2008 15:03:16 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mario Lang, le Fri 02 May 2008 12:52:57 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mario Lang, le Fri 02 May 2008 11:55:30 +0200, a écrit : Samuel: Did you already submit

Re: Lynx and Unicode

2008-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Fri 02 May 2008 15:03:16 +0200, a écrit : Btw, I was thinking about maybe adding an option to setfont, that would automatically extend the loaded 256-char font with braille patterns. That would avoid having to write lat2brl, lat4brl, lat7brl, etc. or lat1brl, which is what

Re: Unicode braille console fonts

2008-05-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Mon 05 May 2008 18:05:58 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually it is _already_ implemented :) I have added brl-{08,10,12,14,16} files to the linux-brl-console, I assume you mean the tarball on brl.thefreecats.org? Yes. I only found brl

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 12:38:56 +0200, a écrit : On Sunday 04 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: Also, the text frontend does not follow it, I guess it should be feasible to change the framebuffer's colors before running it? I guess so as long as there's no risk of affecting serial

Re: Braille printers drivers

2008-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bruno Mascret, le Thu 29 May 2008 10:38:24 +0200, a écrit : We are planning to make braille printers drivers for cups as a part of the natbraille's project. We wonder if such work already exists. Do you have some ideas about existing project? The idea has been around for some time. IIRC

Re: Braille printers drivers

2008-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kenny Hitt, le Thu 29 May 2008 05:06:21 -0500, a écrit : Normally, the difference with Braille printers is the format of the file. Just like any other printer. The text will need to be converted to brf first. Just like .pdf usually need to be converted to .ps first. This user uses

Re: Braille printers drivers

2008-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jason White, le Thu 29 May 2008 20:49:50 +1000, a écrit : On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:17:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Kenny Hitt, le Thu 29 May 2008 05:06:21 -0500, a écrit : Normally, the difference with Braille printers is the format of the file. Just like any other

Re: Braille printers drivers

2008-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kenny Hitt, le Thu 29 May 2008 05:33:54 -0500, a écrit : Nfbtrans can be used in a pipe. Ok, but still lp foo.txt is easier than nfbtrans foo.txt - | lp And also, think about software that print themselves, like mutt: pressing 'p' from mutt to just print your mail and have nfbtrans

Re: braille (using the braille note) and debian lenny cd1 installation

2008-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, So do I just need cd1 for an install? That's enough for most uses yes. How do I get to the boot prompt with this cd to type the command to start brltty? Just wait a bit then type tab What command do I type for the info I listed above? brltty=bn,ttyS0,en_US (it's documented in

Re: braille (using the braille note) and debian lenny cd1 installation

2008-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Dalton, le Thu 19 Jun 2008 20:26:01 +1000, a écrit : On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: Just wait a bit then type tab Oh, thanks. So is there a timer? There is no timer. or can I wait 2 minutes so I'm sure I'm there and hit tab? You can wait for the CD-ROM to spin down

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-07-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Mon 14 Jul 2008 20:04:48 +0200, a écrit : On Saturday 28 June 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: Attached are the patches against rootskel and finish-install which I could test with success (provided the patch from bug #479227 is applied to kernel-wedge and the speakup

Re: Bug#488494: cdebconf: Make the dark theme even more readable

2008-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 15 Jul 2008 12:58:02 +0200, a écrit : On Monday 30 June 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: Oops, I should have explained indeed: I just meant that we won't get bright colors (e.g. real white) in bterm until bogl gets fixed, i.e. even if the cdebconf part is fixed, the result

Re: Software speech in Debian installer

2008-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
(Cc-ing debian-boot as well) Zachary Kline, le Tue 15 Jul 2008 10:21:27 -0700, a écrit : I was wondering about any possibility of putting software speech of some kind into the Debian installer along with Speakup. I realize it isn't a trivial undertaking, Just to copy-paste what I've said

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