Thanks Samuel. I have discovered few more things.
1. When booting both ubuntu and the debian netinst cd, my mac mini stops and I must hit enter to continue. It doesn't do this with a macosx install cd. I don't have any way of knowing for sure if this is just a straight "This isn't a mac cd; do you want to continue" type of pause or if there are options. I'll try to find out from a mac list. This is why I was at first unable to bring up anything at boot from brltty at all; I was trying to type before the actual boot prompt for the cd was up. 2. I finally did the right combination of words in a search and found the posts from gnome-accessibility when I tried to get the ubuntu cd working a little over a year ago. Dave suggested using nofb at boot. I tried this with the debian etch installer and while it gave me more variety of symbols it still didn't give me any recognizable language. 3. I can get into the brltty configuration and that reads fine but of course when I exit the configuration I return to the same symbols. 4. I now see that I'm getting other symbols besides question marks; I'm getting a lot of p's and other symbols that have dots 7 and 8 in them but predominantly probably p's and question marks. 5. The display works in the sense that I can move the advance bars and I hear the pins go up and down somewhat; it's just the characters I'm getting that are all wrong but it's not the kind of thing you'd see from a wrong table being loaded as far as I can tell. Thanks again. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
