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

[Robin Kipp]

Hi again Glenn!
I tested your image now (sorry, it took longer than I thought) and brltty 
works without any problems, that's really, really awesome!!! Thank you so 
much for that! It would be great if we could get that included in the 
official images, it doesn't take up a lot of space I think and I'm sure 
nobody would complain about it. I just have one big problem that I also had 
under Debian before: it doesn't recognise the WLAN chip at all... Is this a 
general issue, is WLAN not supported by the current version of Debian for 
the Eee? Also, when installing, the list of packages that should be 
downloaded from the Debian mirror showed up. Here, both "Desktop 
environment" and "Laptop" were unchecked, so I checked them. Was that 
correct?
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