Package: brltty-udeb Version: 4.2-7 Severity: normal In some cases, when letting the Debian Installer detect the plugged USB braille device, the latter ends up showing only "screen not in text mode".
This happens because udev may need some time to actually discover that a USB braille device is connected, during which the rest of Debian Installer has the time to start bterm (or even Xorg), which is not accessible and produces this warning. A workaround is to pass "brltty" at the kernel command line, which will force USB device detection and disabling bterm or Xorg. A proper solution is not so easy, because udev does not really have a notion of "I have finished discovering devices", "udev settle" is not enough. This thus boils down to the "I first boot, then plug a USB braille device" scenario, which is supposed to switch d-i to textmode so that brltty can read it. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@fnac.net> <c> hiri, le cri ici, c des marrants <c> j'ai un rep ".uglyhackdirectorywithoutacls" ds mon home -+- #ens-mim en stage -+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110131164821.ga5...@const.bordeaux.inria.fr
