[Debian-eeepc-devel] Brltty and the custom installer for the Eee

[Robin Kipp]

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" <gsaberton at foomagic.org>
To: "Robin Kipp" <webmaster at robin-kipp.de>
Cc: <debian-eeepc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
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
>>
>>
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>
> 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